Canongate Classics – serie
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Grampian Quartet
The Quarry Wood: The Weatherhouse: A Pass in the Grampians: The Living Mountain
Av Nan Shepherd, Roderick Watson
Häftad, 2001
203 kr
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The Quarry Wood, although published well before Sunset Song, inhabits a similar world; the progress of its heroine could almost be the alternative story of a Chris Guthrie who did go to university. Compassionate and humorous, the grace and style of Shepherd's prose is heightened by a superb ear for …
Witch Wood
Av John Buchan
Häftad, 2001
137 kr
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Set against the religious struggles of seventeenth-century Scotland, with Montrose for the king against a convenanted kirk, John Buchan's Witch Wood is a gripping atmospheric tale in the spirit of Stevenson and Neil Munro.As a moderate Presbyterian minister, young David Sempill disputes with the …
Three Scottish Poets
Av Edwin Morgan, Norman MacCaig m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
147 kr
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MACCAIG * MORGAN * LOCHHEADThis book contains a selection of the finest work from three of Scotland's best-known and best-loved poets: Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead. They have fascinated and charmed thousands of readers and listeners across Europe and America with the energy, humour …
Glasgow Trilogy
The Boy Who Wanted Peace; Grace and Miss Partridge; Mr Alfred M. A.
Av George Friel
Häftad, 1999
251 kr
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Distinguished by irony, compassion and the author's own dry wit, these three novels paint a memorable picture of life in the streets, schools and tenements of Glasgow in the 1950s and 60s. With a unique vision of loneliness, old age, sexual longing, hot young blood and youth's casual cruelty, …
Question Of Loyalties
Av Allan Massie
Häftad, 2002
192 kr
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Widely acclaimed as Massie's finest novel, A Question of Loyalties engages with all the complexities and ambiguities of loyalty, nationality and family as they are put under threat by betrayal, by errors of judgement, or simply friendship.Etienne de Balafré, half French, half English and raised in …
Canongate Burns
The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
Av Robert Burns, Andrew Noble m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
279 kr
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A complete volume of the writer's poetry and songs includes previously unpublished pieces, draws on extensive scholarship and Burn's own letters, and offers supplemental information about his life, early hardships, political beliefs, and literary contexts.
The Wallace
Av Harry Blind
Häftad, 2003
176 kr
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This extraordinary poem has been widely popular and influential ever since it was written in the fifteenth century, and its heroic account of the swordfighter Wallace was to symbolise the cause of liberty and independence to many other countries and cultures in the centuries to come. Looking back …
Golden Bough
A Study in Comparative Religion
Av J.G. Frazer
Häftad, 2004
240 kr
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Published originally in two volumes in 1890, this extraordinary study of primitive myth and magic, collected from sources around the world, led Frazer to identify parallel patterns of ritual, symbols and belief across many centuries and many different cultures. Frazer's learning inspired a whole …
Memoirs Of A Highland Lady
Av Elizabeth Grant, Andrew Tod
Häftad, 2006
210 kr
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Memoirs of a Highland Lady is one of the most famous memoirs ever written. Since its first bowdlerised edition in 1898, it has been consistently in print. This is the first ever complete text.Written between 1845 and 1854 the memoirs were originally intended simply for Elizabeth's family, but these …
