Coil and Carne is a work of fiction by English journalist, novelist, and poet William Arthur Dunkerley who wrote it under his famous pseudonym, John Oxenham. The book revolves around several themes and events such as inheritance and succession, identity, brotherhood, and the Crimean War. Dunkerley is best known for his 1897 crime fiction A Mystery of the Underground and as a founder of The Idler in February 1892 with Robert Barr, a monthly public interest magazine and one of the most popular during that period. Excerpt from Coil and Carne: "If by any chance you should ever sail on a low...
Coil and Carne is a work of fiction by English journalist, novelist, and poet William Arthur Dunkerley who wrote it under his famous pseudonym, John O...
The book is set from just before the start of the First World War in 1914. It is a work of fiction tied closely to real historic events. The story opens in the comfortable home, The Red House, Wilstead, of Mr John Dare and his family. Mr Dare is beginning to feel mildly bothered about events in Europe but cannot bring himself to believe that war might be a reality. Events begin to get complicated when he decides he must bring his oldest daughter, Lois, home from her studies in Leipzig, Austria. John Oxenham wrote many novels. This one was first published in 1916.
The book is set from just before the start of the First World War in 1914. It is a work of fiction tied closely to real historic events. The story ope...
