Essential Novelists - Hugh Walpole

a natural storyteller

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  • Welcome
  • to
  • the
  • Essential
  • Novelists
  • book
  • series,
  • were
  • we
  • present
  • to
  • you
  • the
  • best
  • works
  • of
  • remarkable
  • authors.
  • For
  • this
  • book,
  • the
  • literary
  • critic
  • August
  • Nemo
  • has
  • chosen
  • the
  • two
  • most
  • important
  • and
  • meaningful
  • novels
  • of
  • Hugh
  • Walpole
  • wich
  • are
  • The
  • Wooden
  • Horse
  • and
  • The
  • Secret
  • City.
  • Sir
  • Hugh
  • Walpole
  • was
  • a
  • British
  • novelist,
  • critic,
  • and
  • dramatist,
  • a
  • natural
  • storyteller
  • with
  • a
  • fine
  • flow
  • of
  • words
  • and
  • romantic
  • invention.
  • He
  • was
  • a
  • good
  • friend
  • of
  • Virginia
  • Woolf,
  • and
  • rated
  • her
  • as
  • an
  • influence;
  • she
  • praised
  • his
  • gift
  • for
  • seizing
  • on
  • telling
  • detail:
  • "it
  • is
  • no
  • disparagement
  • to
  • a
  • writer
  • to
  • say
  • that
  • his
  • gift
  • is
  • for
  • the
  • small
  • things
  • rather
  • than
  • for
  • the
  • large
  • ...
  • If
  • you
  • are
  • faithful
  • with
  • the
  • details
  • the
  • large
  • effects
  • will
  • grow
  • inevitably
  • out
  • of
  • those
  • very
  • details"
  • Novels
  • selected
  • for
  • this
  • book:
  • -
  • The
  • Wooden
  • Horse.
  • -
  • The
  • Secret
  • City.This
  • is
  • one
  • of
  • many
  • books
  • in
  • the
  • series
  • Essential
  • Novelists.
  • If
  • you
  • liked
  • this
  • book,
  • look
  • for
  • the
  • other
  • titles
  • in
  • the
  • series,
  • we
  • are
  • sure
  • you
  • will
  • like
  • some
  • of
  • the authors.
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