Nicky-Nan, Reservist
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About This Book
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer, who published under the pen name of Q. He published his Dead Man's Rock (a romance in the vein of Stevenson's Treasure Island) in 1887, and he followed this up with Troy Town (1888) and The Splendid Spur (1889). After some journalistic experience in London, mainly as a contributor to the Speaker, in 1891 he settled at Fowey in Cornwall. He published in 1896 a series of critical articles, Adventures in Criticism, and in 1898 he completed Robert Louis Stevenson's unfinished novel, St Ives. With the exception of the parodies entitled Green Ver...
Chapters (51)
- NICKY-NAN, RESERVIST.
- NICKY-NAN, RESERVIST.
- CHAPTER I.
- HOW THE CHILDREN PLAYED.
- CHAPTER II.
- CALL TO ARMS.
- CHAPTER III.
- HOW THE MEN WENT.
- CHAPTER IV.
- THE FIRST SERMON.
- CHAPTER V.
- THE ANONYMOUS LETTER.
- CHAPTER VI.
- TREASURE TROVE.
- CHAPTER VII.
- "QUID NON MORTALIA PECTORA . . ."
- CHAPTER VIII.
- BUSINESS AS USUAL.
- CHAPTER IX.
- THE BROKEN PANE
- CHAPTER X.
- THE VICAR'S MISGIVINGS.
- CHAPTER XI.
- THE THREE PILCHARDS.
- CHAPTER XII.
- FIRST ATTEMPT AT HIDING.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- FIRST AID.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- POLSUE V. PENHALIGON, NANJIVELL INTERVENING.
- CHAPTER XV.
- THE 'TATY-PATCH.
- CHAPTER XVI.
- CORPORAL SANDERCOCK.
- CHAPTER XVII.
- THE SECOND SERMON.
- CHAPTER XVIII.
- FEATHERS.
- CHAPTER XIX.
- I-SPY-HI!
- CHAPTER XX.
- MISS OLIVER PROFFERS ASSISTANCE.
- CHAPTER XXI.
- FAIRY GOLD.
- CHAPTER XXII.
- SALVAGE.
- CHAPTER XXIII.
- ENLIGHTENMENT, AND RECRUITING.
- CHAPTER XXIV.
- THE FIRST THREE.
- FINIS.
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