Hocken and Hunken (Annotated)

Arthur Quiller-Couch's Hocken and Hunken is a richly comic Cornish novel of rivalry, memory, and social authority. At its center stand two veteran seamen whose long-standing antagonism becomes entangled with local loyalties, romantic complications, and the claims of an older maritime culture confronted by modern change. Quiller-Couch combines broad farce with affectionate observation, giving his c...