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- Author: N P Cooper
- Publisher: Lulu.com
- ISBN-10: 0244221677
- ISBN-13: 9780244221676
- Format: 14.8 x 21 x 2.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Q's Historical Legacy - XV - Escapades and Occasional Escapes (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu
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Now surpassed in fame as a writer by his daughter's best friend, Daphne du Maurier, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch ('Q') was the pre - eminent Cornish writer of Victorian &Edwardian literature and found of the school of English Literature at Cambridge and is of particular interest as many of his tales are based on factual events which have now passed from memory. Q wrote a huge number of apparently fictional tales but many were actually inspired by historical facts. This volume contains three tales involving adventure and romance relating escapades and an occasional lucky escape: - - 'Deadman's Rock' tells of the attempt by a Cornishman and, much later his son, to recover the family's fortunes involving trips to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and back to Cornwall and involves travel to foreign parts, romance, escapades and adventures. - 'The Hotwells Duel' is set in Regency Bath. - 'Rain of dollars' is set during the, Napoleonic, Peninsular Wars which inspired many of Q's adventure stories
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- Author: N P Cooper
- Publisher: Lulu.com
- ISBN-10: 0244221677
- ISBN-13: 9780244221676
- Format: 14.8 x 21 x 2.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Now surpassed in fame as a writer by his daughter's best friend, Daphne du Maurier, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch ('Q') was the pre - eminent Cornish writer of Victorian &Edwardian literature and found of the school of English Literature at Cambridge and is of particular interest as many of his tales are based on factual events which have now passed from memory. Q wrote a huge number of apparently fictional tales but many were actually inspired by historical facts. This volume contains three tales involving adventure and romance relating escapades and an occasional lucky escape: - - 'Deadman's Rock' tells of the attempt by a Cornishman and, much later his son, to recover the family's fortunes involving trips to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and back to Cornwall and involves travel to foreign parts, romance, escapades and adventures. - 'The Hotwells Duel' is set in Regency Bath. - 'Rain of dollars' is set during the, Napoleonic, Peninsular Wars which inspired many of Q's adventure stories
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