Arthur Quiller-Couch ~6 hr read

A Norse merchant-ship reaches medieval Greenland, a white wolf works its miracle, and ghosts, hauntings, and old sea-yarns unfold, a fireside garland of the strange and the stirring.

Arthur Quiller-Couch's 1902 collection gathers tales of adventure, history, and the supernatural. Vivid, varied, superbly told. Read it for a rich fireside miscellany from a master storyteller, Norse sagas, hauntings, sea-tales, and wry comedies, showcasing the range and craft of the beloved editor of the Oxford Book of English Verse.

In its time

Published in 1902, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).