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Mitchison's Ghosts
Supernatural Elements in the Scottish Fiction of Naomi Mitchison
Häftad, 2008
328 kr
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This groundbreaking book, an important contribution to Naomi Mitchison criticism,examines three novels,The Bull Calves (1947), The Big House (1950) and Lobsters on the Agenda (1952),and a selection of short stories, with particular regard to the supernatural, fairy-tale and mythical content which …
Essays and Journalism, Volume 3
Scotland
Av Naomi Mitchison, Moira Burgess
Häftad, 2023
374 kr
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South Side
Three Glasgow Novellas
Häftad, 2010
295 kr
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The south side isn't just a location, a neighbourhood, an area on a city map. In these brilliantly perceptive novellas, all set in Glasgow, it stands for the flip-side of the psyche, the darkness behind the facade. The title story, The South Side, with its echoes of the Bible John murders, finds …
Speak, Adam
Häftad, 2009
286 kr
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Speak, Adam, formerly published as A Rumour of Strangers in 1987, is the second novel by the literary historian, Moira Burgess. Returning to her former home area of Argyll, Speak, Adam is set in the gossiping town of 'Finavay' where little escapes the notice of the local tongues. The arrival then …
Day Before Tomorrow
Häftad, 2009
295 kr
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n the fast disappearing slums of the Claggans district of a big Scottish city, only a few tenements still stand. In this strange half-world a small group of men and women live out one hot summer week of their lives. Experience is heightened by the presence of a maniac among them-a man whom some of …
Naomi Mitchison's Early in Orcadia, The Big House and Travel Light
(Scotnotes Study Guides)
Häftad, 2004
116 kr
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Naomi Mitchison was one of the most prolific, skilled and original writers of the twentieth century, whose novels range in setting from prehistory to outer space. Her work displays a breadth of knowledge and a sympathetic understanding for humanity: whatever out time, or our culture, or our …
