Educated at Newton Abbot College, Clifton College and Trinity College, Oxford, Quiller-Couch began his career as a lecturer in classics at Oxford in 1886. In 1887, he published his first novel, Dead Man's Rock, about his native Cornwall. Between 1887 and 1892 he was in London working for a publishing company and also as an editor for The Speaker. Many of the stories that he contributed to this periodical were collected in book form. Knighted in 1910, he became professor of English literature at Cambridge in 1912. In addition to his novels, poetry and short stories, Quiller-Couch was an anthologist responsible for many important works, including The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 (1900) and The Oxford Book of Ballads (1910). His numerous works include The Splendid Spur (1889), Major Vigoureux (1907), On the Art of Writing (1916), ON the Art of Reading (1920), Charles Dickens and Other Victorians (1925), Poems (1930), Green Bays (1930) and The Poet As Citizen and Other Papers (1934). |
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EAQC022 |
Adventures in Criticism
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Alexander William Kinglake
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The Attitude of the Public Towards Letters
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Bjoernsterne Bjoernson
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Bow-Wow
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C.S.C. and J.K.S.
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A Case of Bookstall Censorship
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Charles Reade
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Chaucer
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Club Talk
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Excursionists in Poetry
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Externals
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Henry Kingsley
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Ibsen's "Peer Gynt"
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Lawrence Sterne
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M. Zola
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A Morning with a Book
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Mr. Anthony Hope
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Mr. George Moore
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Mr. Hall Caine
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Mr. John Davidson
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Mr. Stockton
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Mr. Swinburne's Later Manner
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Mrs. Margaret L. Woods
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"The Passionate Pilgrim"
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Poets on Their Own Art
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The Poor Little Penny Dreadful
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The Popular Conception of a Poet
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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"Robinson Crusoe"
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Samuel Daniel
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Scott and Burns
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Of Seasonable Numbers
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Selection
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Shakespeare's Lyrics
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Thomas Carew
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"Trilby"
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William Browne
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1896 |
133 |
629k |
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EAQC014 |
The Adventures of Harry Revel
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1903 |
115 |
524k |
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EAQC023 |
The Blue Pavillions
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1891 |
131 |
507k |
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EAQC011 |
Brother Copas
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1911 |
122 |
552k |
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EAQC013 |
Corporal Sam and Other Stories
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Colonel Baigent's Christmas
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The Copernican Convoy
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Corporal Sam
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Doctor Unonius
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The Jew on the Moor
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The Mayor's Dovecot: a Cautionary Tale
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Mutual Exchange, Limited
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My Christmas Burglary
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News from Troy!
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Red Velvet
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1910 |
117 |
551k |
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EAQC021 |
Dead Man's Rock
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1887 |
155 |
616k |
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EAQC006 |
The Delectable Duchy
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The Conspiracy Aboard the Midas
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Cuckoo Valley Railway
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Daphnis
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The Drawn Blind
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Egg-stealing
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From A Cottage in Gantick
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A Golden Wedding
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Legends of St. Piran
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Love of Naomi
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Parents and Children
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The Paupers
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The Prince of Abyssinia's Post-bag
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The Regent's Wager
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School Friends
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Seven-an'-Six
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The Spinster's Maying
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In the Train
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Two Monuments
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When the Sap Rose
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Woon Gate
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1906 |
104 |
509k |
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EAQC026 |
Foe-Farrell
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1918 |
164 |
681k |
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EAQC015 |
Fort Amity
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1904 |
126 |
580k |
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EAQC019 |
Green Bays
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Anecdote for Fathers
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'Behold! I Am Not One That Goes to Lectures.'
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Caliban upon Rudiments
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De Tea Fabula
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The Doom of the Esquire Bedell
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Fire!
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In a College Garden
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Kenmare River
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Lady Jane
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L'Envoi - As I Laye A-Dreamynge
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A Letter
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Measure for Measure
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An Oath
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Retrospection
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The Sair Stroke
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Solvitur Acris Hiemps
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The Splendid Spur
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Tim the Dragoon
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Titania
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A Triolet
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Twilight
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Unity Put Quarterly
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Upon Graciosa, Walking and Talking
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The White Moth
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Why this Volume Is So Thin
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Willaloo
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Written upon Loves Frontier-post
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1930 |
41 |
187k |
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EAQC027 |
Hetty Wesley
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1903 |
153 |
576k |
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EAQC031 |
Hocken and Hunken
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1912 |
183 |
712k |
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EAQC004 |
I Saw Three Ships & Other Winter Tales
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A Blue Pantomime
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The Disenchantment of 'Lizabeth
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The Haunted Dragoon
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I Saw Three Ships
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The Two Householders
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1898 |
95 |
457k |
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EAQC025 |
Lady Good-For-Nothing
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1910 |
186 |
709k |
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EAQC005 |
The Laird's Luck & Other Fireside Tales
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Captain Dick and Captain Jacka
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D'Arfet's Vengeance
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The Laird's Luck
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Margery of Lawhibbet
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Midsummer Fires
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Phoebus on Halzaphron
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The Poisoned Ice
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Three Men of Badajos
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The Two Scouts
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1901 |
131 |
659k |
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EAQC020 |
Major Vigoureux
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1907 |
160 |
662k |
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EAQC024 |
The Mayor of Troy
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1906 |
132 |
551k |
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EAQC029 |
Merry-Garden and Other Stories
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The Bend of the Road
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The Black Joke
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His Excellency's Prize-fight
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Hi-Spy-Hi!
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A Jest of Ambialet
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Merry Garden
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Where the Treasure Is
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1907 |
88 |
461k |
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EAQC016 |
News From the Duchy
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The Cask Ashore
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Fiat Justitia Ruat Solum
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Frenchman's Creek
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The Honour of the Ship
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Lieutenant Lapenotiere
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The Mont-Bazillac
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Not Here, O Appollo!
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Our Lady of Gwithian
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Pilot Matthey's Christmas
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Pipes in Arcady
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The Three Necklaces
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The Wren
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Ye Sexes, Give Ear!
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1913 |
105 |
516k |
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EAQC008 |
Noughts and Crosses
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The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands
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Beside the Bee-hives
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The Boy By the Beach
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The Carol
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The Constant Post-Boy
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The Countess of Bellarmine
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A Dark Mirror
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The Doctor's Foundling
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"Doubles" and Quits
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Fortunio
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The Gifts of Feodor Himkoff
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A Happy Voyuage
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The Magic Shadow
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The Mayor of Gantick
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Old Aeson
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The Omnibus
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The Outlandish Ladies
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The Paradise of Choice
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Psyche
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The Return of Joanna
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The Small People
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Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman
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These-an'-That's Wife
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Yorkshire Dick
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1891 |
80 |
408k |
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EAQC001 |
Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts
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Elisha
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Frozen Margit
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The Lady of the Red Admirals
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The Lady of the Ship
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The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem
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Oceanus
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"Once Aboard the Lugger"
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A Pair of Hands
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The Penance of John Emmet
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Prisoners of War
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The Room of Mirrors
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The Seventh Man
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The Singular Adventure of a Small Free-Trader
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A Town's Memory
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Which?
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1900 |
133 |
686k |
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EAQC030 |
On the Art of Reading
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Lecture I - Introductory
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Lecture II - Apprehension Versus Comprehension
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Lecture III - Childrens Reading (I)
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Lecture IV - Childrens Reading (II)
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Lecture IX - On Reading the Bible (II)
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Lecture V - On Reading for Examinations
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Lecture VI - On A School of English
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Lecture VII - The Value of Greek and Latin in English Literature
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Lecture VIII - On Reading the Bible (I)
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Lecture X - On Reading the Bible (III)
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Lecture XI - Of Selection
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Lecture XII - On the Use of Masterpieces
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1920 |
107 |
562k |
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EAQC007 |
Poetry
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1914 |
16 |
184k |
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EAQC018 |
Poison Island
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1912 |
146 |
600k |
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EAQC017 |
The Ship of Stars
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1899 |
138 |
578k |
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EAQC002 |
The Splendid Spur
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1889 |
132 |
585k |
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EAQC009 |
Two Sides of the Face
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Cleeve Court
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The Colaborators
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The Horror on the Stair
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The Hotwells Duel
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The Mazed Election (1768)
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My Lady's Coach
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The Rider in the Dawn
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Stephen of Steens
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1903 |
107 |
532k |
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EAQC028 |
The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems
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A. B. D.
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Alma Mater
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C. W. S.
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Chant Royal of High Virtue
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Christmas Eve
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Coronation Hymn
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Dereliction
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E. W. B.
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To A Friend Who Sent Me A Box of Violets
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To A Friend
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Hesperus
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Jenifer's Love
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The Marine
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Mary Leslie
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To Maurice Hewlett
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To A Mother, on Seeing Her Smile Repeated in Her Daughter's Eyes
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Nuptial Night
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Of Three Children
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Pervigilium Veneris
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The Regent
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The Root
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Saturn
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The Soldier
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The Statues and the Tear
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Two Duets
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Vashti's Song
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The Vigil of Venus
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1912 |
61 |
251k |
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EAQC010 |
Wandering Heath
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The Bishop of Eucalyptus
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The Captain from Bath
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The First Parish Meeting
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"Flowing Source."
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Jetsom
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The Legend of Sir Dinar
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The Looe Die-hards
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My Grandfather, Hendry Watty
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The Roll-Call of the Reef
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The Simple Shepherd
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Visitors at the Gunnel Rock
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Widdershins
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Wrestlers
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A Young Man's Diary
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1895 |
87 |
442k |
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EAQC003 |
The Westcotes
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1901 |
66 |
380k |
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EAQC012 |
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
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Ballast
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The Bridals of Ysselmonde
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The Burglary Club
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The Capture of the Burgomeister Van Der Werf
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The Cellars of Rueda
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Concerning St. John of Jerusalem
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Cox Versus Pretyman
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England!
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The Haunted Yacht
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John and the Ghosts
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The Keepers of the Lamp
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King O' Prussia
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The Man Who Could Have Told
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The Miracle of the White Wolf
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Parson Jack's Fortune
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The Senior Fellow
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Sindbad on Burrator
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The Talking Ships
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Three Photographs
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Two Boys
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Victor
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1902 |
151 |
723k |
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