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Title: A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Tom Crawford ISBN: 0-86241-532-2 Publisher: Canongate Books Pub. Date: September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: don't let it pass you by
Comment: unjustly overlooked, this book (really comprised of three novellas, all together a trilogy) deserves to be mentioned in the same breath with other modernist works, such as "Dubliners" or "Sons and Lovers." at its time, the books were important, both politically and socially, because they present scottish language and scottish history as things separate from - though no less equal to - the larger "English" culture. beyond this, gibbon's lyricism is a wonder to behold; he can manipulate language in ways that may bring a tear to your eye (and the story, mournful as it is, just may add to it)."Scottish Quaire" is a work that many have never heard of, and that is unfortunate. it offers a unique voice to the human condition, and, perhaps more importantly, the scottish condition. i tell you to buy it, or at least check it out of your library (lord knows there'll be copies available).
Rating: 5
Summary: A superb account of Scotland earlier this century
Comment: A marvellous trilogy with each novel depicting that particular era superbly. My personal favourite was Sunset Song because it was saluting the end of an era for the Scottish crofter who will always be part of Scotland's great heritage.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful,timeless. A masterpiece
Comment: It is rare to find a book written on Scotland at the beginning of the 20th century to be so powerful and moving. The book heroine, Chris Guthrie is one of the most realistic and brilliant characters in modern literature. To have a book that merges elements of the Kailyard and the counter-Kailyard movement so effectively is an brilliant idea, difficult, but brilliant. Quite simply the greatest book ever written.
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Title: The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories (Oxford Books of Prose) by Douglas Dunn ISBN: 0192801902 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Waverley by Walter Scott, Andrew Hook ISBN: 0140430717 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: February, 1981 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie : Perennial Classics Edition by Muriel Spark ISBN: 0060931736 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown ISBN: 0385504209 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Burns: Poems and Songs (Oxford Paperbacks ; 260) by Robert Burns, James Kinsley ISBN: 0192811142 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 1971 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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