A beautiful and varied collection of stories by the best Scottish writers, past and present.
Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land, where the short story has flourished for over two centuries. Here are chilling supernatural stories from Robert Louis Stevenson, Eric Linklater and Dorothy K. Haynes; side-splittingly funny stories from Alasdair Gray and Irvine Welsh; a stylish offering from urban realist William McIlvanney. Iain Crichton Smith evokes the Gaelic-speaking highlands, George Mackay-Brown the Orkney islands, Andrew O'Hagan working-class Glasgow; while Leila Aboulela, originally from Sudan, ponders the relations between colonizers and colonized from her home in Aberdeen. Though there is no one 'Scottishness' that binds the authors together, writes editor Gerard Carruthers, each has a Scottish footprint or accent. And perhaps more importantly, all are masters of their form.
Contributions by:
Sir Walter Scott, James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Margaret Oliphant, John Buchan Imprint: Everyman's Library Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 186mm,
Width: 124mm,
Spine: 36mm
Weight: 480g ISBN:9781841596358 ISBN 10: 1841596353 Series:Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Pages: 480 Publication Date:01 September 2023 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
