A Scots Quair

Author : Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sunset Song written by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunset Song is widely regarded as one of the most important Scottish novels of the 20th century. Chris Guthrie, the female protagonist, is a strong character who grows up in a dysfunctional farming family. Life is hard after her dad's death and she must take some tough decisions to save her farms under the inevitable threat of World War I . . . Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), a Scottish writer famous for his contribution to the Scottish Renaissance and portrayal of strong female characters.

Author : Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grey Granite written by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grey Granite belongs to "A Scots Quair Series", one of the greatest works of Scottish literature. This is a story of a young man Ewan and his struggles during the depression era of 1930s. Ewan is forced to become a communist activist due to violence and police brutality. But everything is threatened when the cause becomes bigger than the people around him... "Here the slipper-slide of the pavement took a turn that she knew, leading up to the heights of Windmill Place, and shortly, out of the yellow swath, she saw come shambling the lines of the Steps with their iron hand-rail like a famished snake." (Excerpt) Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), a Scottish writer famous for his contribution to the Scottish Renaissance and portrayal of strong female characters.

Author : Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book CLOUD HOWE (The Classic of Scottish Literature) written by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-06 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cloud HoweII is the story of Chris Guthrie and her second husband Robert. They move to Segget, a mill town where a class struggle is taking shape and Robert is at the helm of political affairs... "The borough of Segget stands under the Mounth, on the southern side, in the Mearns Howe, Fordoun lies near and Drumlithie nearer, you can see the Laurencekirk lights of a night glimmer and glow as the mists come down." (Excerpt) Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (1901 – 1935), a Scottish writer famous for his contribution to the Scottish Renaissance and portrayal of strong female characters.

Author : Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Scots Quair written by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At each book's core is the heroine Chris Guthrie, as she grows from a child into adulthood through the Great War to the development of communism in the 1920s. Grassic Gibbon's writing is unique and riveting, blending Scots and English in an accessible style, and eloquent in its humanity and celebration of nature.

Author : James I (King of Scotland)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The "kingis Quair" written by James I (King of Scotland) and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9780464999713
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Scots Quair written by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Scots Quair: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, Grey Granite by Lewis G. Gibbon. All three volumes in one. Chris Guthrie, torn between her love of the land and her desire to escape the narrow horizons of a peasant culture in the first half of the 20th century, is the thread that links these three works. In them, Gibbon interweaves the personal joys and sorrows of Chris' life with the greater events of the time. The first in this trilogy of novels was voted Scotland's favourite book in a 2005 poll, although they are best read together for the captivating continuing story.

Author : Billy Kay
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780574185
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scots written by Billy Kay and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scots: The Mither Tongue is a classic of contemporary Scottish culture and essential reading for those who care about their country's identity in the twenty-first century. It is a passionately written history of how the Scots have come to speak the way they do and has acted as a catalyst for radical changes in attitude towards the language. In this completely revised edition, Kay vigorously renews the social, cultural and political debate on Scotland's linguistic future, and argues convincingly for the necessity to retain and extend Scots if the nation is to hold on to its intrinsic values. Kay places Scots in an international context, comparing and contrasting it with other lesser-used European languages, while at home questioning the Scottish Executive's desire to pay anything more than lip service to this crucial part of our national identity. Language is central to people's existence, and this vivid account celebrates the survival of Scots in its various dialects, its literature and song. The mither tongue is a national treasure that thrives in many parts of the country and underpins the speech of everyone who calls themselves a Scot.

Author : Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publisher : Hesperus Press
ISBN 13 : 1780943202
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spartacus written by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original landmark story of the gladiator Spartacus, a masterpiece of vivid storytelling full of adventure, suspense, cruelty, and romantic intrigue Rome, 73 BC. Kleon, a Greek slave, wakes early, cuts his master's throat, and flees south by a back road, clutching a copy of Plato's Republic. His destination is Capua, where he hopes to join the burgeoning rebel army of Spartacus, an escaped gladiator. So begins the definitive telling of one of the most famous stories in history. Spartacus and his companions, having defeated every Roman force sent against them, are plundering the countryside and gathering to their ranks thousands of fugitives, brigands, and itinerants. They seek to create a new world, one where men are not owner and owned. But they must first escape Italy, and the vengeful Roman legions already marshalling against them. Brutal and uncompromising in its depiction of the ancient world, Spartacus masterfully evokes the violence, hope, and despair of the war that shook Rome to its very foundations.

Author : Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smeddum written by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's writing brings together old favourites and new material for the first time. There are all his lively contributions to Scottish Scene (co-written by Hugh MacDiarmid) including the unforgettable lilt and flow of his short stories 'Smeddum', 'Clay', 'Greendenn', 'Sim' and 'Forsaken'. The anthology ends with the full text of his last novel, The Speak of the Mearns, unpublished in his lifetime. Valentina Bold has also included a collection of poems, 'Songs of Limbo', taken from typescripts in the National Library of Scotland, and a selection of Grassic Gibbon's articles and short fiction, with work done for The Cornhill Magazine along with book reviews and essays on Diffusionism, ancient American civilization and selected studies from his book on the lives of explorers, Nine Against the Unknown. A Lewis Grassic Gibbon Anthology provides an indispensable supplement to Canongate's edition of A Scots Quair, and it also offers further insight into the wide-ranging interests and the lyrical, historical and political writing of the greatest and best-loved Scottish novelist of the early twentieth century.

Author : James Leslie Mitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Trumpet written by James Leslie Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: