author
Arthur Quiller-Couch
1863–1944
Best remembered as the lively, opinionated "Q," he helped shape generations of readers through his famous poetry anthologies and essays on style. His fiction often draws on Cornwall and the sea, giving even his adventures a strong sense of place.
43 Audiobooks
The sleeping beauty and other fairy tales from the old French
by Arthur Quiller-Couch, Charles Perrault, dame de Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot Gallon Villeneuve
True Tilda
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q"
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
The Adventures of Harry Revel
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Shining Ferry
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Corporal Sam and Other Stories
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
The Westcotes
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
The Blue Pavilions
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Lady Good-for-Nothing: A Man's Portrait of a Woman
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
The Delectable Duchy
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
The Splendid Spur Being Memoirs of the Adventures of Mr. John Marvel, a Servant of His Late Majesty King Charles I, in the Years 1642-3
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Nicky-Nan, Reservist
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Green Bays. Verses and Parodies
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Charles Dickens and other Victorians
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Hocken and Hunken A Tale of Troy
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Brother Copas
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Wandering Heath
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
News from the Duchy
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Merry-Garden and Other Stories
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Poison Island
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
From a Cornish Window A New Edition
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Dead Man's Rock
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
The Astonishing History of Troy Town
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Poetry
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
The Roll-Call Of The Reef
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Major Vigoureux
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
The Mayor of Troy
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
On The Art of Reading
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
The Warwickshire Avon
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
The Ship of Stars
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Shakespeare's Christmas, and other stories
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Fort Amity
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Hetty Wesley
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Two Sides of the Face: Midwinter Tales
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Adventures in Criticism
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Foe-Farrell
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts: A Book of Stories
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
About the author
Born in Bodmin, Cornwall, on November 21, 1863, he became one of the best-known English men of letters of his time, publishing much of his work under the pen name Q. He studied at Trinity College, Oxford, and early in his career wrote novels, poems, stories, and criticism.
Although he was a prolific writer, he is especially remembered for editing The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900, later revised in 1939, and The Oxford Book of Ballads. These collections helped fix his reputation as a guide to English literature, and his literary criticism kept him in view long after many of his novels had faded from the spotlight.
He later became Professor of English Literature at Cambridge, adding academic influence to his public reputation as a writer and critic. He died in Fowey, Cornwall, on May 12, 1944, leaving behind a body of work closely linked with both literary taste and the landscape of Cornwall.