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Hugh Walpole,August Nemo

7 best short stories by Hugh Walpole

Hugh Walpole's skill at scene-setting and vivid plots, as well as his high profile as a lecturer, brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America. Walpole sought critical as well as financial success, and longed to write works that equalled those of Trollope, Thomas Hardy and Henry James. 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”. Joseph Conrad said of him, “We see Mr. Walpole grappling with the truth of things spiritual and material with his characteristic earnestness, and we can discern the characteristics of this acute and sympathetic explorer of human nature.”
Check out this seven short stories by this author carefully selected by critic August Nemo:

— The Whistle.
— The Silver Mask
— The Staircase.
— A carnation for an old man.
— Tarnhelm
— Mr. Oddy.
— Seashore Macabre.
139 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2020
Publication year
2020
Publisher
Tacet Books
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