Walpole: 153 books

This useful 1890 work recounts the history of England from the end of the Napoleonic War in 1815 to the peace of Paris in 1856, following the Crimean War. A balanced yet honest six-volume history, it is Walpole’s masterpiece. Volume Four begins with the closing years of the reign of William IV and...

The Captives is penned down by Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, (13 March 1884  1 June 1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist. Its a lugubrious novel, centring on the children of fundamentalists, young adults who struggle to escape emotional attachments to relatives who preach hellfire religion. Maggie,...

Sounding a favorite theme—the power of the elderly, especially the power of elderly ladies—this early (1917) novel shows the influence of the author’s mentor, Henry James. It encapsulates Walpole’s gift for lighting on the small, telling detail and also his surprising humor. Second in the Rising City sequence, after The Duchess of Wrexe.

Praised in a letter to the author by Carl Jung as “a psychological masterpiece,” Walpole’s early (1912) novel is the story of a Cambridge undergraduate, Olva Dune, who commits a murder. Ironically, at the moment he commits his crime, he feels the presence of God.

A Book of Stories: THE LITTLE DONKEYS WITH THE CRIMSON SADDLES (English Country, Twentieth Century), THE ENEMY IN AMBUSH (Russia Pre-war), CHINESE HORSES (Beautiful Things more than Beautiful People), A SILLY OLD FOOL (A Scrap of Polchester), ECSTASY (Derwentwater in Sunlight), THE TARN (Ullswater under...

In addition to his autobiographical novels of social observation, Walpole was also known for his fine tales of supernatural horror. This 1920 collection includes “Lizzie Rand,” one of his most successful excursions into the unknown, as well as “Absalom Jay,” “Mr. Nix,” “Nobody,” “Lucy Moon,” and “Bombastes Furioso.”

She was frightened. The fear was as sudden and, in one sense, as unexpected as an unheralded sharp stab in the breast. And yet not unexpected, because it had been hovering near her, almost out of her consciousness but not quite, for many weeks. They were at the Cross-roads. Pelynt Cross. She knew...

During World War I, Walpole worked in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) as Head of British Propaganda. He drew on that experience for this 1919 novel, the tale of a Russian family caught up in the political intrigue of the Revolution. The book was the first winner of the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

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Jeremy is the first of a trilogy of coming of age stories published by Sir Hugh Walpole. Published in 1919 to critical acclaim across the world, it quickly became a bestseller.Jeremy was published in 1919 and is the first book of the Jeremy trilogy - Jeremy and Hamlet (1923) and Jeremy at Crale (1927)....

A father returns from a lonely twenty years’ exile in Australia, to find his only son cold and unwelcoming.  Walpole’s first novel (1909) was praised for its fine observation of the small moments of ordinary lives, and for its depiction of Cornwall’s brooding seaside.

Hugh Walpole's thrilling adventure novel of the 1920s revolves around Piccadily Circus. Richard Gunn is an ex-soldier in trouble after the end of the Great War. Jobless and starving in Piccadilly Circus, he encounters his nemesis, Leroy Pengelly. From this encounter the secrets of their shared past...

The author was praised for his lively and accurate depictions of childhood in this 1919 novel. A comic exploration of the psychology of boyhood, it is the first in a trilogy that includes Jeremy and Hamlet (1923) and Jeremy at Crale (1927). The fictional setting, the cathedral town of Polchester in Glebeshire, appears in many later Walpole novels.

A case of buyer’s remorse, Victorian style: feisty young Rachel chooses a conventional but dull suitor over her rebellious cousin. As her marriage goes into decline, she starts seeing a lot more of the unsuitable man. This 1914 novel shows the influence of Walpole’s mentor, Henry James.