De Schotse schrijver James Leslie Mitchell, die schreef onder het pseudoniem Lewis Grassic Gibbon, verwierf bekendheid met zijn trilogie A Scots Quair, met name het eerste deel, Sunset Song. Zijn werken, geprezen om hun realistische verteltrant en lyrische taalgebruik van dialect, worden beschouwd als cruciaal voor de Schotse Renaissance in de 20e eeuw. Mitchell wijdde zich vanaf 1929 volledig aan het schrijven, en zijn kenmerkende stijl trok al vroeg de aandacht, zelfs die van H. G. Wells.
Writing as J. Leslie Mitchell, Lewis Grassic Gibbon tells the semiautobiographical story of Malcom Maudsley, who grows up before World War I in the Aberdeenshire countryside that was later to form the backdrop for Gibbon's Scot's Quair Trilogy.
This partly autobiographical first novel sketches the lives of ordinary people living through the Jazz Age and the troubled sexuality of the times.
When a country experiences a civil war, media reports are mainly brought to the attention of the outside world by those who can only report on the surface impressions obtained during a short visit or from the comfort of a studio thousands of miles away.
This volume contains the complete Scots Quair trilogy, by Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon. The trilogy consists of three novels: Sunset Song (1932), Cloud Howe (1933), and Grey Granite (1934). The first is widely regarded as an important classic (voted Scotland's favourite book in 2005 ) . It describes the life of Chris Guthrie, a woman from the north east of Scotland during the early 20th century. In Sunset Song, Guthrie grows up in a farming family in the fictional Estate of Kinraddie in "The Mearns" (Kincardineshire) in the north east of Scotland at the start of the 20th century. Life is hard, and her family is dysfunctional. She marries a farmer, Ewan Tavendale...
The Whigs were one of the two great English political parties in the 150 years after 1700. This title paints a portrait, of which politics forms only a small part, of an extraordinary group of men and women whose power, taste and intellect dominated the centre of what had become the greatest power in the world.
Ein schottisches Buch
