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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH Young Chris Guthrie lives a brutal life in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, torn between her passion for the land, duty to her family and her love of books. When her mother, broken by repeated childbirths...

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH Young Chris Guthrie lives a brutal life in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, torn between her passion for the land, duty to her family and her love of books. When her mother, broken by repeated childbirths...

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Chris Guthrie and her son, Ewan, have come to the industrial town of Duncairn, where life is as hard as the granite of the buildings all around them. These are the Depression years of the 1930s, and Chris is far from the fields of her youth in Sun...

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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 ...

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"Nine Against the Unknown" is a vintage book that looks at some of history's most important and celebrated explorers including Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus, describing in detail their various voyages and journeys and how they changed the wo...

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Spartacus is the classic inspiring and powerful account of the uprising of the slaves against the Roman Empire in 73 BC, led by the gladiator Spartacus. Gibbon's knowledge is impressive, and the book is really wonderful to read as fiction, as adve...

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Faced with a choice between a harsh farming life and the world of books and learning, Chris Guthrie chooses to remain in her rural community, bound by her intense love of the land. But everything changes with the arrival of the First World War and...

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Twice Voted Scotland's Favourite Book 'Left me scorched' Ali Smith 'Unforgettable' Guardian Faced with a choice between a harsh farming life and the world of books and learning, Chris Guthrie chooses to remain in her rural...

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Faced with the choice between her harsh farming life and the seductive but distant world of books and learning, the spirited Chris Guthrie decides to remain in her rural community. But as the devastation of the First World War leaves her life-and ...

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A Scots Quair is revolutionary - innovative in its form, deft and humorous in its use of the Scots language, courageous in its characterisation and politics. Central to the trilogy is Chris Guthrie, one of the most remarkable female characters in ...

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Chris Guthrie, torn between her love of the land and her desire to escape the narrow horizons of a peasant culture, is the thread that links these three works. In them, Gibbon interweaves the personal joys and sorrows of Chris' life with the ...

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A classic of Scots literature, brilliantly adapted for the stage. Sunset Song is the first novel in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Scots Quair trilogy, a rich evocation of growing up on a farm in Scotland in the early-20th century, of being in love a...

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Faced with the choice between her harsh farming life and the seductive but distant world of books and learning, the spirited Chris Guthrie decides to remain in her rural community. But as the devastation of the First World War leaves her life-and ...

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A Scots Quair is revolutionary - innovative in its form, deft and humorous in its use of the Scots language, courageous in its characterisation and politics. Central to the trilogy is Chris Guthrie, one of the most remarkable female characters in ...

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The original landmark novel of the slave revolt against the Romans in 73BC, led by the gladiator Spartacus. Heralded as one of the great historical novels of the twentieth century--and an inspiration to generations of people who have fought agains...

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Lewis Grassic Gibbon, der bürgerlich James Leslie Mitchell hieß (1901-1935), hat sich ganz besonders mit der Hauptfigur Chris so tief in die Herzen seiner Leser eingeschrieben, dass sie »Lied vom Abendrot« bis heute immer wieder zum größten schott...

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Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901-1935) schrieb mit "e;Wind und Wolkenlicht"e; die Geschichte von Chris Guthrie aus "e;Lied vom Abendrot"e; fort. Nach dem Tod ihres ersten Mannes heiratet Chris den Idealisten Robert Colquohoun und zieht m...

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Lewis Grassic Gibbon, der burgerlich James Leslie Mitchell hie (1901-1935), hat sich ganz besonders mit der Hauptfigur Chris so tief in die Herzen seiner Leser eingeschrieben, dass sie "e;Lied vom Abendrot"e; bis heute immer wieder zum gro...

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This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Collected Works of Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Unabridged)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Sunset Song is the first book of the trilogy A Scots Quair and wid...

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This carefully crafted ebook: "e;A SCOTS QUAIR: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe & Grey Granite (World's Classics Series)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Sunset Song is the first book of the trilog...

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This carefully crafted ebook: "e;SUNSET SONG (World's Classic Series)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Sunset Song is widely regarded as one of the most important Scottish novels of the 20t...

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After a mid-air plane crash, Clair Stranlay, Sir John Mullaghan, and Keith Sinclair end up 25,000 years back in time to the lost island of Atlantis... "It startled the crew of the Rio tramp and there was a momentary scurry of grimy off-watches rea...

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"e;Habia cosas maravillosas en el mundo, cosas maravillosas que no duraban, y eso las volvia mas maravillosas."e;Cuando empieza a estudiar en la escuela de Kinraddie, un pequeo pueblo escocs, la joven Chris Guthrie se encuentra en la disyu...

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La continuación de Canción del ocaso, votado como el mejor libro escocés de todos los tiempos.Tras perder a su marido en la Primera Guerra Mundial, Chris se casa con Robert Colquohoun, un reverendo idealista y comprometido con los cambios socia...

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