Naughts and Crosses by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Fiction, Action & Adventure

One day, when she and her boy were out playing, the boy stopped for a moment. He stood and smiled at her with the sun at his back -- and his shadow lay upon the whitened steps. But the silhouette was not that of a little breeched boy at all, but of a little girl in petticoats -- with long curls, where the charwoman's son was close-cropped!

"The Magic Shadow" is one of the dozen-plus stories of everyday life -- and of not-so-everyday delight and wonder -- in Naughts and Crosses, by the author of The Splendid Spur.

Author: Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Q.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Aegypan
Published: 01/01/2009
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d
ISBN: 9781606642993

About the Author
Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas: - "Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863 - 1944) was a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication The Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250-1900 (later extended to 1918) and for his literary criticism. He influenced many who never met him, including American writer Helene Hanff, author of 84, Charing Cross Road and its sequel, Q's Legacy. His Oxford Book of English Verse was a favorite of John Mortimer's fictional character Horace Rumpole."