The House With Green Shutters - Softcover
The most famous Scottish novel of the early 20th century, The House with the Green Shutters has remained a landmark on the literary scene ever since it was first published in 1901. Determined to overthrow the sentimental "kailyard" stereotypes of the day, George Douglas Brown exposed the bitter pettiness of commercial greed and small-town Scottish life as he himself had come to know it. More than this, however, his novel lays bare the seductive and crippling presence of patriarchal authority in Scottish culture at large, symbolized by the terrible struggle between old John Gourlay and his weak but imaginative son. Illuminated by lightning flashes of descriptive brilliance, Brown€™s prose evokes melodrama, Greek tragedy, and postmodern alienation in a unique and unforgettably powerful reading experience. Introduced by Cairns Craig.
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The most famous Scottish novel of the early twentieth century, 'The House with the Green Shutters' has remained a landmark on the literary scene ever since it was first published in 1901.
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George Brown was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, novelist, politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation. Brown used the Globe newspaper to publish articles and editorials that attacked the institution of slavery in the southern United States.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0140182780
- ISBN 13 9780140182781
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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