The complete online text of Noughts and Crosses by Arthur Quiller-Couch.

As a student of Oxford University, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch signed articles contributed to the Oxford University Magazine with the letter "Q," and he continued to use that signature all his life. Q had a remarkable, and yet dual, career: first, he publis...

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, commonly known as "Q," the initial with which he signed many of his works, was a reformer and reform writer primarily in working to improve secondary education in Cornwall and in contributing to the reform of the study of Englis...

At the end of the nineteenth century, Arthur Quiller-Couch was a prominent man of letters, one of a group of literary, often scholarly, journalists whose work filled the pages of the better magazines with short stories, book reviews, and causeries. As as...

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The world of noughts and crosses has been thrown into turmoil. This is far worse than last week's little tiff in the Professional Bowls Association in which it was suggested that some women players might have been selected for a televised matchplay event because...