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News from the Duchy

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

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A narrator sets off through Cornwall on a slow local train, intending to inspect a Norman church porch. A strange musical scene in a meadow changes his afternoon: railway workers are dancing while a flute and concertina play. His curiosity leads to a later conversation with their foreman, Joby Tucker. Arthur Quiller-Couch uses the leisurely pace, country scenery and local speech to prepare the opening story's account of an absurd interruption to everyday work.

News from the Duchy collects short stories with humour and a strong sense of place. A naval episode brings a different urgency, as Lieutenant Lapenotiere delivers a dispatch from the fleet to Lord Barham in the early morning. The official's hurried dressing provides comic detail before the news turns serious.

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Arthur Quiller-Couch

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) was a Cornish novelist, critic, and Cambridge professor who wrote under the initial Q. He edited the influential Oxford Book of English Verse and shaped generations of readers through his lectures on writing and reading.

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Pages
145
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