Hugh Walpole: 71 books

The Captives Hugh Walpole, New Zealand-born English novelist (1884-1941) This ebook presents «The Captives», from Hugh Walpole. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- DEDICATION -03- PART...

Fortitude Hugh Walpole, New Zealand-born English novelist (1884-1941) This ebook presents «Fortitude», from Hugh Walpole. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- DEDICATION -03- BOOK I. SCAW...

A New Zealand-born English novelist. A prolific writer, he published thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays and three volumes of memoirs. His skill at scene-setting, his vivid plots, his high profile as a lecturer and his driving ambition brought him a large readership in the...

This volume contains Hugh Walpole’s 1932 novel, "The Fortress". Judith Paris comes back to her home, looking to end the long-standing feud between two different sides of the Herries family. Walter, however, makes sure that all of Jennifer’s plans fail and starts construction of a mighty...

This antiquarian volume contains the narrative of a year in the life of a content, normal but extremely imaginative boy growing up with his two siblings and his dog, Hamlet, in Colchester-by-the-sea, Cornwall. It is a heart-warming and humorous tale written with an affection and insight that is indicative...

Hugh Walpole’s thrilling adventure novel of the 1920s revolves around Piccadily Circus. Richard Gunn is an ex-soldier in trouble after the end of the Great War. Jobless and starving in Piccadilly Circus, he encounters his nemesis, Leroy Pengelly. From this encounter the secrets of their shared past...

From The Jeremy Trilogy, this book is a wonderful reminder of the magic of childhood, without being overly sentimental or saccharine. A pity Walpole had no children, I think he would have been a wonderful father. Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941), a 20th-century English novelist, had a large...

The thin papery sky of the early autumn afternoon was torn, and the eye of the sun, pale but piercing, looked through and down. The eye's gaze travelled on a shaft of light to the very centre of the town. A little scornful, very arrogant, it surveyed the scene. The Cathedral had chimed at three, and...

I, John Ozias Talbot, aged thirty-six years and three months, being in my perfectly sane mind, wish to write down this statement. I do so entirely and solely for my own benefit and profit--in fact, for the quietening of my disturbed mind. It is most improbable that anyone other than myself will read...

The Captives is penned down by Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, (13 March 1884  1 June 1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist. Its a lugubrious novel, centring on the children of fundamentalists, young adults who struggle to escape emotional attachments to relatives who preach hellfire religion. Maggie,...

A Book of Stories: THE LITTLE DONKEYS WITH THE CRIMSON SADDLES (English Country, Twentieth Century), THE ENEMY IN AMBUSH (Russia Pre-war), CHINESE HORSES (Beautiful Things more than Beautiful People), A SILLY OLD FOOL (A Scrap of Polchester), ECSTASY (Derwentwater in Sunlight), THE TARN (Ullswater under...

She was frightened. The fear was as sudden and, in one sense, as unexpected as an unheralded sharp stab in the breast. And yet not unexpected, because it had been hovering near her, almost out of her consciousness but not quite, for many weeks. They were at the Cross-roads. Pelynt Cross. She knew...

Jeremy is the first of a trilogy of coming of age stories published by Sir Hugh Walpole. Published in 1919 to critical acclaim across the world, it quickly became a bestseller.Jeremy was published in 1919 and is the first book of the Jeremy trilogy - Jeremy and Hamlet (1923) and Jeremy at Crale (1927)....

Hugh Walpole's thrilling adventure novel of the 1920s revolves around Piccadily Circus. Richard Gunn is an ex-soldier in trouble after the end of the Great War. Jobless and starving in Piccadilly Circus, he encounters his nemesis, Leroy Pengelly. From this encounter the secrets of their shared past...