Hugh Walpole

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1938
  • Latest Book:
    September 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Herries Chronicle

Rogue Herries (Jan-2011)
Judith Paris (Dec-2011)
The Fortress (Dec-2011)
Vanessa (Dec-2011)

Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • The Joyful Delaneys

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    A novel of Spring and Fall, of old love and young, of London and an ancient house about to die. When Fred Delaney wished his lodger, Patrick Munden, revolutionary poet, a Happy New Year, it was with a fervor that echoed the wish for himself becaus...

  • Jeremy

    This unique edition of Jeremy from Dead Dodo Vintage includes the full original text as well as exclusive features not available in other editions....

  • The Cathedral

    Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was an English novelist. He was a key member of the exclusive homosexual coterie in 1930s London, which included Noel Coward and Ivor Novello. W. H. Auden visited him in the 1930s....

  • The Gods And Mr. Perrin; A Tragi-Comedy

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

  • The Duchess Of Wrexe

    A case of buyer’s remorse, Victorian style: feisty young Rachel chooses a conventional but dull suitor over her rebellious cousin. As her marriage goes into decline, she starts seeing a lot more of the unsuitable man. This 1914 novel shows the infl...

  • The Dark Forest

    This novel is set on the Polish Front during the First World War, and follows an Englishman working for the Red Cross on the Russian side. An enthusiastic observer of human nature, he is profusely empathetic and analytical, and becomes enthralled by ...

  • A Prayer for My Son

    This moment of anticipation was the worst of her life--never beforehad she been so utterly alone.Her loneliness now was emphasized by the strange dead-white glowthat seemed to bathe her room. She had just switched off theelectric light, and the curt...

  • Portrait of a Man with Red Hair

    Hesther stared in horror at hideous Mr. Crispin as if he were the devil himself! His skin, beneath hair the color of hell’s flames, was deathly white. His mouth was a thin, vicious slash of red. And on the finger of one hand was a sinister, hypn...

  • Rogue Herries

    Herries Chronicle

    A little boy, David Scott Herries, lay in a huge canopied bed, halfawake and half asleep.He must be half awake because he knew where he was--he was in thebedroom of the inn with his sisters, Mary and Deborah; they were inthe bed with him, half clothe...



  • Fortitude

    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

  • The Green Mirror

  • The Prelude to Adventure

    Praised in a letter to the author by Carl Jung as "a psychological masterpiece," Walpole's early novel is the story of a Cambridge undergraduate, Olva Dune, who commits a murder. Ironically, at the moment he commits his crime, he feels the presence o...

  • The Wooden Horse

    A father returns from a lonely twenty years’ exile in Australia, to find his only son cold and unwelcoming.  Walpole’s first novel (1909) was praised for its fine observation of the small moments of ordinary lives, and for its depiction of C...

  • The Young Enchanted

  • The Secret City

    Sent out to Russia by the Foreign Office in 1916, Jerry Lawrence and Henry Bohun find themselves unlikely travelling companions. Bohun, an immaculately dressed man who holds himself in high regard as a poet, feels the force of destiny to be a great m...

  • The Fortress

    Herries Chronicle

    It had been the wish of her whole life to flee from all the Herries, but Walter Herries had challenged her, and she had taken up the challenge'. Judith Paris, now middle aged returns to the Lakes to deal with the bitter feud between the two branches ...

  • Judith Paris

    Herries Chronicle

    Set partly in Revolutionary Paris, and partly in romantic Cumbria, Judith Paris is the story of the two very different men who love Walpole's most delightful heroine.Daughter of Francis Herries and Mirabell Starr, Judith was described on publication ...

  • Vanessa

    Herries Chronicle

    The fourth and final volume of the Herries Chronicles, described as 'incomparably the best' in The Daily Telegraph is a love story of 'effortless brilliance' (Observer) which starts with the triumph of Judith Paris's hundredth birthday in the 1870's ...

  • Mr Perrin and Mr Traill

    Many books have been written about the horror of boys public schools. Comparatively few, however, venture beyond the staff-room door to examine the suffering of masters as well as pupils. Of those that do, there is probably none that captures the wre...



  • The Killer and the Slain

    "[An] exercise in the macabre, the bizarre, the psychologically unaccountable ... worked out with conspicuous craft and dexterity ... ingenious, accomplished." - Times Literary Supplement

    "[A] masterful blending of suspense, horror and deep-...

  • The Fallen

    Welcome to a little soirée that’s long overdue: a celebration of the life and work of Hugh Walpole. Immensely popular in the first half of the twentieth century, Hugh Walpole was a prolific bestselling author who was equally adept at historical fi...

  • The Old Ladies

    This vintage book contains Hugh Walpole's 1924 novel, "The Old Ladies". This book was written whilst Walpole was staying with his parents in Switzerland. It was begun without much prior thought, and served as a welcome break from another ...

  • Wintersmoon

    Hugh Walpole’s Wintersmoon turns the romance novel on its head. Janet Grandison and Wildherne Poole marry for companionship and convenience. Love isn’t part of the arrangement. Janet wants to give her sister Rosalind a home; Wildherne wants an he...

  • The Captives

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    Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was an English novelist. He was born in Auckland in New Zealand and educated in England at the King's School, Canterbury and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He worked as a teacher before turning to writing full ti...

  • The Golden Scarecrow

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    “Hugh Seymour” is the protagonist among a slew of characters appearing in this partly autobiographical 1915 collection of sketches. Meet Enery, Bim Rochester, Young John Scarlet, and other children living around a quiet old square in London. Hugh...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Hugh Walpole has published 25 books.

Hugh Walpole does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Wintersmoon, was published in September 2019.

The first book by Hugh Walpole, The Joyful Delaneys, was published in January 1938.

Yes. Hugh Walpole has 1 series.
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