All Reviews by Norman J. Muehleck
The Laird's Luck
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Good book of short stories, well worth a read. Thank manybooks.net!
I Saw Three Ships
by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
An enjoyable read of stories, some quite short and others less so, of England--particularly the duchy of Cornwall, in the southwest--in earlier centuries. Most presented in the first persons of various characters, to varying ends; some droll, some mildly spooky; on the whole, quite entertaining and recommended for all ages.
Hocken and Hunken
by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
EXCELLENT, most enjoyable read! I highly recommend it.
Foe-Farrell
by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Interesting action and adventure, but more than half the book is 1900 +/- British dialogue--too much for me.
The Delectable Duchy
by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Very nice, and large, collection of short stories, most of them set in Cornwall between 1840 and 1900.
Dead Man's Rock
by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The best read I've had in a long time. Highly recommended. Thank you, manybooks.net!
Corporal Sam
by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
A rather nice collection of short stories, varying in setting from the English civil war (Cromwell & Charles I) to the turn of the 20th century. An entertaining read.
The Astonishing History of Troy Town
by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
I'm not much on these books of town gossip; I think this the first I've ever finished--says something for the writer and the story he wove. Give it a try, you might like it.
The Adventures of Harry Revel
by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Good book! Though I think I've enjoyed some others by this author even more. He's good, very good!
Sure do thank manybooks.net for making his collection available!
Fort Amity
by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Another absolutely superb work by this author. To think I'd never heard of him until recently, and only stumbled across him because of this much-appreciated web site (manybooks.net)!
The Blue Pavilions
by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
An absolutely outstanding piece of masterfully written work, delightfully droll in many places, historically instructive in others, esp. within the last one-third. VERY highly recommended, much more so than even some of Josef Conrad's excellent works.
The Blood Ship
by Norman Springer
Very nice piece of work re life on a clipper hell-ship with a psychotic and murderous captain.
Ben Burton
by W.H.G. Kingston
Good read if you like ~1800 British Navy action. Writing stiff, not very good flow, otherwise good.
The Belted Seas
by Arthur Colton
Different, fast-moving, has mainly to with itinerant US sailors who speak like 1960's-70's hippies in the 1870's-1880's S. Pacific and Carribean. Not Hemingway or Conrad, for sure.
At Sunwich Port
by W.W. Jacobs
Fair, at best. More on small English port social life dysfunction than anything else.
Among Malay Pirates
by G.A. Henty
Blessed few typo's. "Malay" story plot ok, but writing stilted. The several short stories following are better done.
Battles with the Sea
by Robert Michael Ballantyne
Written for children, a series of escapades of Britain's Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
The After House
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Nice, fast-moving mystery thriller. I've never seen so many typo's; proofer and editor s/b shot.
Afloat at Last
by John C. Hutcheson
Very good read, and a wealth of detail re life on, in, with, and around larger sailing merchant ships in the later 1800's. Highly recommended.