Nicky-Nan, Reservist - Quiller-Couch, Arthur
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Nicky-nan reservist begins in a quiet Cornish town where news of war shatters the stillness. The story centers on an isolated resident living with injury and economic hardship as society around him prepares for conflict. Children play at war with sticks and caps while their elders worry over letters, enlistment, and loved ones far from home. As the mood darkens, daily routines are unsettled by fear, speculation, and gossip. The protagonist, reluctant and burdened, faces conscription into service despite personal limitations. His position becomes increasingly precarious, caught between civic…mehr

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Nicky-nan reservist begins in a quiet Cornish town where news of war shatters the stillness. The story centers on an isolated resident living with injury and economic hardship as society around him prepares for conflict. Children play at war with sticks and caps while their elders worry over letters, enlistment, and loved ones far from home. As the mood darkens, daily routines are unsettled by fear, speculation, and gossip. The protagonist, reluctant and burdened, faces conscription into service despite personal limitations. His position becomes increasingly precarious, caught between civic duty and the immediate challenges of survival. Uncertainty looms over possessions, pride, and the future. Tensions escalate as townspeople shift from mundane concerns to collective unease, forced to reconcile individual fears with communal sacrifice. As homes darken and harbor walls echo with the sounds of departure, the main figure stands as both witness and reluctant participant in an unfolding drama that demands more than mere patriotism. The narrative captures the personal cost of war within a world too small to hide and too proud to yield.
Autorenporträt
Arthur Quiller-Couch was born in the town of Bodmin, Cornwall. He was the son of Dr. Thomas Quiller Couch, a renowned physician, folklorist, and historian who married Mary Ford and resided at 63 Fore Street, Bodmin, until his death in 1884. Thomas was the offspring of two historic local families, the Quiller and Couch dynasties. Arthur was the third generation of academics from the Couch family. His grandfather, Jonathan Couch, was a naturalist, physician, historian, classicist, pharmacist, and illustrator (especially of fish). His younger sisters, Florence Mabel and Lilian M., were both writers and folklorists. Quiller-Couch attended Newton Abbot Proprietary College between the late 1870s and the early 1880s. He later attended Clifton College and Trinity College, Oxford, where he earned a First in Classical Moderations (1884) and a Second in Greats (1886). Quiller-Couch briefly taught Classics at Trinity beginning in 1886. After gaining some journalistic experience in London, primarily as a writer to The Speaker (periodical), he settled in Fowey, Cornwall, in 1891.