Arthur Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer who often published under the pseudonym Q. "Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900" was his most famous work. His stories have a wide range of subjects from Viking tales, satires, historical fiction, romantic adventures, tales of heroic swashbuckling, mystery and crime fiction, and sea-going adventures. Quiller-Couch gives his reader stories and sketches of Cornish villages. He includes anecdotes about the village people fishermen; scraps of legend, humor, romances and tragedies.