{"product_id":"9781508081081","title":"The Delectable Duchy","description":"Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch wrote short stories, novels, and criticism -- and edited anthologies, including the \"Oxford Book\" series. He was Assistant Editor of the Liberal weekly \u003ci\u003eThe Speaker,\u003c\/i\u003e and from 1912 until his death was Professor of English at Cambridge University. Writing under the pen name \"Q\", Quiller-Couch produced a variety of work, including adventure stories, historical fiction, satire, stories of the supernatural, and mysteries. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Delectable Duchy\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of stories about the Cornwall area of Britain, inspired by a journalist friend who comes for a visit to learn what Cornwall is like. He has spent a week in Cornwall, and wishes to spend a day with Q learning about his particular area. Q despairs of spinning out the story of \"his little nook\" for a whole day, and realizes \"that my love for this spot is built up of numberless trivialities, of small memories all incommunicable, or ridiculous when communicated; a scrap of local speech heard at this corner, a pleasant native face remembered in that doorway, a battered vessel dropping anchor,\" and the stories in the collection are the result.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dodo Collections","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131654553840,"sku":"9781508081081","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781508081081_p0.jpg?v=1763726077","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781508081081","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}