Dead Man's Rock A Romance

Dead Man's Rock A Romance

Author: Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-01-01

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9361157736

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"Dead Man's Rock: A Romance" by means of Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch is a captivating story that unfolds alongside the rugged shoreline of Cornwall, mixing elements of romance, mystery, and the supernatural. The tale revolves round Dionysius Williams, a pupil looking for solitude in a secluded cottage near Dead Man's Rock. As Dionysius delves into his academic interests, he will become entangled in the neighborhood legends and eerie happenings surrounding the foreboding Dead Man's Rock. The narrative weaves a compelling tapestry of Gothic atmosphere, full of suspense and the haunting beauty of the ocean. Quiller-Couch's masterful storytelling ability is evident inside the seamless interplay of bright descriptions of the Cornish landscape and the mental intensity of the characters. The novel introduces factors of the supernatural, blurring the strains among reality and legend, as Dionysius grapples with the mysteries of Dead Man's Rock. "Dead Man's Rock" is a captivating exploration of love, journey, and the enigmatic forces that form human destinies. Quiller-Couch's wealthy prose and evocative putting immerse readers in an international wherein the coastal landscape turns into a person in itself, improving the allure of this romantic and mysterious tale.


Tales and Romances: Dead man's rock.- v. 2. The astonishing history of Troy town.- v. 3. Noughts and crosses.- v. 4. The splendid spur.- v. 5. The delectable duchy.- v. 6. The Westcote's. Ia. Tom Tiddler's ground.- v. 7. The blue pavilions.- v. 8. The ship of stars.- v. 9. Wandering heath.- v. 10. The adventures of Harry Reval.- v. 11. Hetty Wesley.- v. 12. Old fires and profitable ghosts.- v. 13. Fort Amity.- v. 14. I saw three ships and Mortallone.- v. 15. Sir John Constantine.- v. 16. Brother Copas.- v. 17. The laird's luck and other fireside tales.- v. 18. Shining ferry.- v. 19. The mayor of Troy.- v. 20. Major Vigoreux.- v. 21. True Tilda.- v. 22. The white wolf and other fireside tales.- v. 23. Poison Island.- v. 24. Lady Good-for-Nothing.- v. 25 Hocken and Huncken.- v. 26. News from the duchy.- v. 27. Nicky-Nan, reservist.- v. 28. Foe Farrell.- v. 29. Two sides of a face.- v. 30. Merry Garden and other stories

Tales and Romances: Dead man's rock.- v. 2. The astonishing history of Troy town.- v. 3. Noughts and crosses.- v. 4. The splendid spur.- v. 5. The delectable duchy.- v. 6. The Westcote's. Ia. Tom Tiddler's ground.- v. 7. The blue pavilions.- v. 8. The ship of stars.- v. 9. Wandering heath.- v. 10. The adventures of Harry Reval.- v. 11. Hetty Wesley.- v. 12. Old fires and profitable ghosts.- v. 13. Fort Amity.- v. 14. I saw three ships and Mortallone.- v. 15. Sir John Constantine.- v. 16. Brother Copas.- v. 17. The laird's luck and other fireside tales.- v. 18. Shining ferry.- v. 19. The mayor of Troy.- v. 20. Major Vigoreux.- v. 21. True Tilda.- v. 22. The white wolf and other fireside tales.- v. 23. Poison Island.- v. 24. Lady Good-for-Nothing.- v. 25 Hocken and Huncken.- v. 26. News from the duchy.- v. 27. Nicky-Nan, reservist.- v. 28. Foe Farrell.- v. 29. Two sides of a face.- v. 30. Merry Garden and other stories

Author: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 296

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Dead Man's Rock

Dead Man's Rock

Author: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Publisher: Library of Alexandria

Published: 2020-09-28

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1465593993

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Whatever claims this story may have upon the notice of the world, they will rest on no niceties of style or aptness of illustration. It is a plain tale, plainly told: nor, as I conceive, does its native horror need any ingenious embellishment. There are many books that I, though a man of no great erudition, can remember, which gain much of interest from the pertinent and appropriate comments with which the writer has seen fit to illustrate any striking situation. From such books an observing man may often draw the exactest rules for the regulation of life and conduct, and their authors may therefore be esteemed public benefactors. Among these I, Jasper Trenoweth, can claim no place; yet I venture to think my history will not altogether lack interestÑand this for two reasons. It deals with the last chapter (I pray Heaven it be the last) in the adventures of a very remarkable gemÑnone other, in fact, than the Great Ruby of Ceylon; and it lifts, at least in part, the veil which for some years has hidden a certain mystery of the sea. For the moral, it must be sought by the reader himself in the following pages. To make all clear, I must go back half a century, and begin with the strange and unaccountable Will made in the year of Grace 1837 by my grandfather, Amos Trenoweth, of Lantrig in the County of Cornwall. The old farm-house of Lantrig, heritage and home of the Trenoweths as far as tradition can reach, and Heaven knows how much longer, stands some few miles N.W. of the Lizard, facing the Atlantic gales from behind a scanty veil of tamarisks, on Pedn-glas, the northern point of a small sandy cove, much haunted of old by smugglers, but now left to the peaceful boats of the Polkimbra fishermen. In my grandfather's time however, if tales be true, Ready-Money Cove saw many a midnight cargo run, and many a prize of cognac and lace found its way to the cellars and store-room of Lantrig. Nay, there is a story (but for its truth I will not vouch) of a struggle between my grandfather's lugger, the Pride of Heart, and a certain Revenue cutter, and of an unowned shot that found a Preventive Officer's heart. But the whole tale remains to this day full of mystery, nor would I mention it save that it may be held to throw some light on my grandfather's sudden disappearance no long time after. Whither he went, none clearly knew. Folks said, to fight the French; but when he returned suddenly some twenty years later, he said little about sea-fights, or indeed on any other subject; nor did many care to question him, for he came back a stern, taciturn man, apparently with no great wealth, but also without seeming to want for much, and at any rate indisposed to take the world into his confidence. His father had died meanwhile, so he quietly assumed the mastership at Lantrig, nursed his failing mother tenderly until her death, and then married one of the Triggs of Mullyon, of whom was born my father, Ezekiel Trenoweth.


Dead Man's Rock

Dead Man's Rock

Author: Arthur Quiller-Couch

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-12

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13:

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By Arthur Quiller-Couch is a gripping English novel set in the picturesque landscape of Cornwall. Quiller-Couch's narrative is a thrilling blend of treasure troves, murder mysteries, and intrigue. The rugged and mysterious Cornwall setting adds depth and authenticity to this captivating story.