Essential Novelists - Arthur Quiller-Couch: clear and effortless style

Arthur Quiller-Couch · August Nemo

maig del 2020 · Essential Novelists Llibre 144 · Tacet Books

Sobre aquest llibre

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Arthur Quiller-Couch wich are True Tilda and The Mayor of Troy. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch was a prolific writer of verse, literary criticism and the author of popular novels of the day, including comic stories based on his beloved Fowey - or Troy Town, as he renamed it. They included The Astonishing History of Troy Town and The Mayor of Troy Town. He also completed Robert Louis Stevenson's unfinished novel St Ives. Novels selected for this book: - True Tilda. - The Mayor of Troy.This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Sobre l'autor

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication The Oxford Book Of English Verse 12501900 and for his literary criticism. He influenced many who never met him, including American writer Helene Hanff, author of 84, Charing Cross Road and its sequel, Q's Legacy. His Oxford Book of English Verse was a favourite of John Mortimer's fictional character Horace Rumpole.