Scottish Stories (Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS)

Carruthers, Gerard (Editor) / Scott, Sir Walter (Contributor) / Welsh, Irvine (Contributor) / Smith, Ali (Contributor) / Stevenson, Robert Louis (Contributor) / Oliphant, Margaret (Contributor) / Buchan, John (Contributor) / Spark, Muriel (Contributor)

ISBN 10: 1841596353 / ISBN 13: 9781841596358

Published by Everyman, 2023

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480 pages. 7.44x4.92x1.30 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Scottish Stories (Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS)
• Publisher: Everyman
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841596353
• ISBN 13: 9781841596358
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.48 kilograms

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Synopsis

Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land, where the short story has flourished for over two centuries. Here are chilling supernatural stories from Robert Louis Stevenson, Eric Linklater and Dorothy K. Haynes; side-splittingly funny stories from Alasdair Gray and Irvine Welsh; a stylish offering from urban realist William McIlvanney. Iain Crichton Smith evokes the Gaelic-speaking highlands, George Mackay-Brown the Orkney islands, Andrew O'Hagan working-class Glasgow; while Leila Aboulela, originally from Sudan, ponders the relations between colonizers and colonized from her home in Aberdeen. Though there is no one 'Scottishness' that binds the authors together, writes editor Gerard Carruthers, each has a Scottish footprint or accent. And perhaps more importantly, all are masters of their form.