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The Delectable Duchy

The Delectable Duchy

The Delectable Duchy

Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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Editorial:
Standard Publications
Año de edición:
2010
Materia
Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781438536545
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Arthur Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer who often published under the pseudonym Q. 'Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900' was his most famous work. His stories have a wide range of subjects from Viking tales, satires, historical fiction, romantic adventures, tales of heroic swashbuckling, mystery and crime fiction, and sea-going adventures. Quiller-Couch gives his reader stories and sketches of Cornish villages. He includes anecdotes about the village people fishermen; scraps of legend, humor, romances and tragedies.

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