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In the stubble the crack! crack! of a stray gun speaks, now and again, of partridge-time. Over the pastures, undulating with ridge and furrow, where the black oxen feed, patches of gloom and gleam are scurrying as the wind-westerly, with a touch of north-chases the light showers under a vivid sun. Along the drab road darts a bullfinch, his family after him; pauses a moment among the dogrose berries; is off again, and lost in the dazzle ahead. A high...
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Originally written in 1740, Beauty and the Beast has been reimagined into countless theatrical, print, and film adaptations over the course of two and a half centuries. Its popularity has only grown since its initial publication. The basis for the 2017 film adaptation, this classic fairytale has proven to still appeal to modern-day story-lovers and readers alike.
The narrative follows young Beauty, who is forced to live with a beast in an enchanted...
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Excerpt: "All save one of the papers here collected were written as lectures and read from a desk at Cambridge; the exception being that upon Trollope, contributed to The Nation and the Athenaeum and pleasantly provoked by a recent edition of the "Barsetshire" novels. To these it almost wholly confines itself. But a full estimate of Trollope as one of our greatest English novelists-and perhaps the raciest of them all-is long overdue, awaiting a complete...
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The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French contains a collection of stories, adapted and translated by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch. Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer, who published under the pen-name of Q. Originally penned by such famed folklorists as Charles Perrault and Madame D'Aulnoy, these stories proved to their original seventeenth century readers that such works were important, enjoyable, as well as thought-provoking....
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This 1899 novel is a Cornish love story that traces its two protagonists, Taffy and Honoria, from their childhood onward. According to a contemporary review in the New York Times, "The Ship of Stars is full of dramatic power, and shows Mr. Quiller-Couch at his best."
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This novel, left unfinished at the author's death, was completed by his friend, the writer Arthur Quiller-Couch, and published in 1897. The novel recounts the adventures of Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier, after his capture by the British-and his romance with the lovely Flora Gilchrist.