Sunset Song

Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
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.

Grey Granite

Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473383889
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

CLOUD HOWE (The Classic of Scottish Literature)

Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183

Book Description
In 'Cloud Howe', Lewis Grassic Gibbon paints a vivid picture of rural Scotland in the early 20th century, focusing on the struggles and triumphs of the working class. The novel is rich in dialect, capturing the essence of the Scottish landscape and its people with poetic language and deep emotional insight. Gibbon's use of stream-of-consciousness narrative adds layers of complexity to the storyline, immersing readers in the characters' inner thoughts and feelings. The novel stands as a classic of Scottish literature, offering a timeless portrayal of human relationships and societal change in a changing world.

A Scots Quair

Author: Lewis G. Gibbon
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 9780805207101
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

The "kingis Quair"

Author: James I (King of Scotland)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description

A Scots Quair

Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN: 9780464999713
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428

Book Description
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.

Scots

Author: Billy Kay
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1780574185
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
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.

Spartacus

Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639360786
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219

Book Description
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Smeddum

Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 990

Book Description
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.

A Scots Quair

Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publisher: Polygon
ISBN: 9781846973673
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 696

Book Description
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.