The Speak of the Mearns: Short Stories and Essays
by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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This essential collection from Lewis Grassic Gibbon comprises short stories, essays and a novel, The Speak of the Mearns, which was unfinished at the time of the author's death in 1935. Grassic Gibbon's fame rests mainly on the trilogy, A Scots Quair, and the short stories, some well known, exhibit the same elements—powerful, dramatic writing and a distinctive local flavor—found in the novels. The Speak of the Mearns is a sharply observed unsentimental portrait of a rural coastal show more community seen through the eyes of a young boy growing up there. The essays put on record the author's views on politics and religion. show lessTags
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Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) is 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 show more Mearns trilogy A Scots Quair is his most renowned work, and has become a landmark in Scottish literature. show less
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