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  • - Scottish poetry from the reign of James I
     
    194,95 kr.

    In 1603, James Stewart became also king of England and Ireland, and a great deal of excellent poetry was composed by Scottish writers during his reign. Poets faced the political and cultural challenges inherent in the novel concept of Great Britain in a variety of ways, and the thistle and the rose bloomed together in the Jacobean garden of verses.

  • - A Century of Gaelic Drama
     
    194,95 kr.

    Modern Gaelic drama has the power to break down barriers and to touch people across linguistic and cultural divides. This collection is a celebration of Gaelic theatre, featuring eight Gaelic plays (with English translations) from the start of the twentieth century to the present day.

  • - Scottish Neo-Latin Poets on King James VI and His Reign, 1566-1603
     
    595,95 kr.

    Latin was Scotland's third language in the early modern period, alongside Scots and Gaelic, and the reign of King James VI and I is considered to be a golden age of Scottish neo-Latin literature. Corona Borealis examines Latin poems by Scottish authors written between 1566 and 1603, and highlights the role of Latin in Scottish cultural life.

  • - A New Prose Collection 1950-2005
    af Edwin Morgan
    244,95 kr.

    Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) is one of the giants of modern literature. In Touch With Language presents previously uncollected prose, with topics ranging from Gilgamesh to Ginsberg, cybernetics to sexualities, international literatures to the changing face of his home city of Glasgow. Everyone will find surprises and delights in this new collection.

  • - The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
    af Margaret Oliphant
    117,95 kr.

    Kirsteen, from an old but impoverished family, rebels against her father and flees to London. Against the odds she finds work, striving for independence against a world determined to drag her down. Written in the late 1800s, Kirsteen is a startlingly modern novel in its treatment of women and work.

  • - And Other Educational Writing
    af Elizabeth Hamilton
    118,95 - 245,95 kr.

    The Cottagers of Glenburnie is a fascinating example of early 19th-century women's fiction. This volume is the only edition available in print, and it comes with a glossary and notes for scholars and students.

  • - Five Plays by James Bridie
    af James Bridie
    159,95 kr.

    Includes "The Sunlight Sonata", "A Sleeping Clergyman", "Mr Bolfry", and "Daphne Laureola", along with, "The Anatomist": the tale of Dr Knox and his relationship with Edinburgh's notorious bodysnatchers, Burke and Hare. All the plays, in this work, are accompanied by notes and a glossary.

  • - Two Novels by Dot Allan
    af Dot Allan
    117,95 kr.

    Confronting issues of class and gender, Makeshift and Hunger March are two novels which offer an insight into women's lives in Scotland in the first half of the 20th century. They are also highly readable and enjoyable works of fiction by a writer who deserves rediscovery by a new generation.

  • - A Novel
    af Susan Ferrier
    172,95 kr.

    Faced with the prospect of marriage to an elderly, squinting Duke, the Lady Juliana elopes with her penniless Scottish beau. But what happens when this English society beauty's romantic notions of the Highlands meet cold, damp reality?Susan Ferrier's 1818 novel Marriage is a witty and satirical examination of female lives in the Regency era.

  • - An Anthology of Scots Poetry from the First and Second Waves of the Scottish Renaissance
     
    172,95 kr.

    Beginning in the 1920s, the Scottish Renaissance saw Scottish writers increasingly engaged with social and political issues. Hugh MacDiarmid, his contemporaries, and the company of poets he inspired make up the first and second waves of the Renaissance. A Kist o Skinklan Things contains a selection of the best work from this extraordinary period.

  • af David Pae
    141,95 kr.

    Mary Paterson is a high-Victorian tale of the foul deeds of Burke and Hare, who kept Edinburgh's anatomists supplied with freshly manufactured corpses. David Pae's galloping nineteenth-century novel not only provides a fascinating window into the popular Victorian imagination but is also a highly entertaining novel in its own right.

  • - Scottish War Poetry 1914-1945
     
    142,95 kr.

    From the Line brings together the best of Scotland's poetry from the two World Wars: 138 poems, from fifty-six poets, are represented here; poetry from both men and women, from battlefields across the world and from the Home Front, too.

  • af Allan Cunningham
    141,95 kr.

    A selection of folk stories steeped in the traditions and popular literature of southern Scotland and northern England. Originally published in 1822, Cunningham's Traditional Tales form an essential part of folkloric history, as well as being fascinating stories in their own right.

  • - The Collected Poems of Marion Bernstein
    af Marion H. Bernstein
    141,95 kr.

    A Song of Glasgow Town contains all of Bernstein's 198 published poems, along with a detailed introduction to her life and work, and extensive notes explaining the background to each poem. These verses provide a fascinating insight into Glasgow in the late Victorian age, at a time of unprecedented social and economic change.

  • - Plays by Glasgow Unity Writers
     
    159,95 kr.

    Growing out of roots planted in the Great Depression and the chaos of the Second World War, Glasgow Unity Theatre grew into the most celebrated and influential of mid-twentieth century Scottish theatre companies. This work contains acting scripts of five of their most important plays, including Ena Lamont Stewart's "Men Should Weep".

  • - Five Classic Plays in Scots Translation
     
    141,95 kr.

    "Serving Twa Maisters" brings together five plays in Scots translation, along with scholarly editorial notes and a full glossary.

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