Contemporary Scottish Fictions
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Author | : Diana Gabaldon |
Publisher | : Dell |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2004-10-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0440335167 |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon’s work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages. One of the top ten best-loved novels in America, as seen on PBS’s The Great American Read! Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a former British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743. Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of a world that threatens her life, and may shatter her heart. Marooned amid danger, passion, and violence, Claire learns her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives. This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content: • An excerpt from Diana Gabaldon’s Dragonfly in Amber, the second novel in the Outlander series • An interview with Diana Gabaldon • An Outlander reader’s guide Praise for Outlander “Marvelous and fantastic adventures, romance, sex . . . perfect escape reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle “History comes deliciously alive on the page.”—New York Daily News
Author | : Duncan J. Petrie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
"The last 20 years have witnessed an unprecedented flourishing of cultural expression in Scotland, regarded by some as a response to a growing sense of political disenfranchisement. Contemporary Scottish Fictions explores some of the major figures, works, themes and aesthetics of this cultural renaissance in the high profile areas of film, television drama and the novel." "This book is aimed at a wide readership of students and academics in Scottish Studies, Literary Studies, Film and TV Studies, as well as the general reader with an interest in contemporary Scottish culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Peter Kravitz |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 1999-12-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The anthology features such stories as James Kelman's The Busconductor Hines, on the life of a bus conductor in Glasgow, Alison Fell's There's Tradition for You, an art model's rant, and Duncan McLean's Hours of Darkness, the impact on a community of the arrival of a stranger.
Author | : Isobel Murray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Matt McGuire |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2008-11-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137070080 |
This Guide examines the critical construction of the genre of 'contemporary Scottish literature' and assesses the critical responses to a wide range of contemporary Scottish fiction, poetry and drama. The Guide is structured thematically with each chapter addressing a specific area of debate within the field of contemporary Scottish Studies.
Author | : Rikke Iversholt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Kravitz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2017-08-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781375928434 |
Author | : Neil Williamson |
Publisher | : Mercat Press Books |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
This anthology comprises works from established and up-and-coming writers such as Ken MacLeod, Charles Stross, and Ron Butlin. The stories come under the heading of speculative fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism and alternate history.
Author | : T. Baker |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2014-10-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137457201 |
An innovative reading of a wide range of contemporary Scottish novels in relation to literary tradition and modern philosophy, Contemporary Scottish Gothic provides a new approach to Scottish fiction and Gothic literature, and offers a fuller picture of contemporary Scottish Gothic than any previous text.
Author | : Peter Kravitz |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan Adult |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 9780330335515 |
‘Usually in diaspora, the intelligence of the Scots is recognized worldwide. These stories show that this capacity is now flourishing at home’ Ross Leckie, The Times ‘There could be not be a more heartening showcase of talent. A showcase, incidentally, that will remind those in need of it that in the past few decades Scottish fiction has been creating some of the most powerful, vibrant writing to be found anywhere . . . It will be a hard-hearted reader who does not emerge with a profound respect forthe imagination and scope of contemporary Scottish writing’ Rosemary Goring, Scotland on Sunday ‘It always helps to know where the editorial line of an anthology is coming from. This one, I can guarantee you, comes straight from the horse’s mouth’ Jenny Turner, Independent on Sunday ‘English north of the border is displayed in an exhilarating diversity of timbre and voice, with little sign of a cultural cringe towards standardization’ Tom Deveson, Sunday Times