Essential Novelists - Hugh Walpole: a natural storyteller

Hugh Walpole · August Nemo

May 2020 · Essential Novelists Book 153 · Tacet Books

About this ebook

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 Hugh Walpole wich are The Wooden Horse and The Secret City. Sir Hugh Walpole was a British novelist, critic, and dramatist, a natural storyteller with a fine flow of words and romantic invention. He was a good friend of Virginia Woolf, and rated her as an influence; she praised his gift for seizing on telling detail: "it is no disparagement to a writer to say that his gift is for the small things rather than for the large ... If you are faithful with the details the large effects will grow inevitably out of those very details" Novels selected for this book: - The Wooden Horse. - The Secret City.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.

About the author

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among those who encouraged him were the authors Henry James and Arnold Bennett. His skill at scene-setting and vivid plots, as well as his high profile as a lecturer, brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s but has been largely neglected since his death.