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Buch 1 von 3: A Scots Quair

Grassic Gibbon, Lewis

 
9781904598664: Sunset Song: Voted ‘The Best Scottish Book of All Time’
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1904598668 ISBN 13: 9781904598664
Verlag: Birlinn General, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Faced with a choice between her harsh farming life and the seductive but distant world of books and learning, Chris Guthrie eventually decides to remain in her rural community, bound by her intense love of the land. However, the intervention of the First World War leaves her choice in tatters. Chris is now a widowed single mother: her farm, and the land it occupies, is altered beyond recognition—trees torn down, people displaced. But although the novel describes a way of life which is in decline, it also presents a strong image of hope. Chris adapts to her new world, displaying an intuitive strength which, like the land which she loves, endures despite everything. Sunset Song is a testament to Scotland's agricultural past, to the world of crofters and tradition which was destroyed in the First World War. It is a powerful description of life in the first few decades of the century through the evocation of change and the lyrical intensity of its prose.

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Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. Born in Aberdeenshire in 1901, he died at the age of thirty-four. He was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays and science fiction, and his writing reflected his wide interest in religion, archaeology, history, politics and science. The Mearns trilogy, A Scots Quair, is his most renowned work, and has become a landmark in Scottish literature.

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Verlag
Birlinn General
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1904598668
ISBN 13 
9781904598664
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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