The Grampian Quartet
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Author |
: Nan Shepherd |
Publisher |
: Canongate Books |
Total Pages |
: 748 |
Release |
: 2010-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781847675958 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1847675956 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Grampian Quartet by : Nan Shepherd
Edited and introductions by Roderick Watson. The Quarry Wood, although published well before Sunset Song, inhabits a similar world; the progress of its heroine could almost be the alternative story of a Chris Guthrie who did go to university. Compassionate and humorous, the grace and style of Shepherd’s prose is heightened by a superb ear for the vigorous language of the north-east. The Weatherhouse, Shepherd’s masterpiece, is an even more substantial achievement which belongs to the great line of Scottish fiction dealing with the complex interactions of small communities, and especially the community of women – a touching and hilarious network of mothers, daughters, spinsters and widows. It is also a striking meditation on the nature of truth, the power of human longing and the mystery of being. The third and final novel, A Pass in the Grampians, describes Jenny Kilgour’s coming of age as she has to choose between the kindly harshness of her grandfather’s life on a remote hill farm, and the vulgar and glorious energy of Bella Cassie, a local girl who left the community to pursue success as a singer, and has now returned to scandalise them all. The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Shepherd’s knowledge of the natural world, and a poetic and philosophical meditation on our longing for high and holy places. This is the first omnibus edition of Shepherd’s prose works – her sensitivity and powers of observation raise her work far above the status of regional literature and into the front rank of Scottish writing.
Author |
: Nan Shepherd |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:681675450 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Grampian Quartet by : Nan Shepherd
Author |
: Nan Shepherd |
Publisher |
: Canongate Books |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2010-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781847678010 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1847678017 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Quarry Wood by : Nan Shepherd
When Martha accepts a place at university, her decision is met with a mixture of hostility and pride by her uncomprehending family. This is the story of a young woman's journey to maturity and independence, struggling to cope with the intellectual and emotional challenges that surround her, at a time when such space was rarely given freely to women. In The Quarry Wood, Nan Shepherd's subtle prose is matched by intense and memorable descriptions of the natural world, and a dry sense of humour. Ninety years after its first publication, it remains as fresh and original today.
Author |
: Nan Shepherd |
Publisher |
: Canongate Books |
Total Pages |
: 227 |
Release |
: 2009-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781847678027 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1847678025 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Weatherhouse by : Nan Shepherd
The women of the tiny town of Fetter-Rothnie have grown used to a life without men, and none more so than the tangle of mothers and daughters, spinsters and widows living at the Weatherhouse. Returned from war with shellshock, Garry Forbes is drawn into their circle as he struggles to build a new understanding of the world from the ruins of his grief. In The Weatherhouse Nan Shepherd paints an exquisite portrait of a community coming to terms with the brutal losses of war, and the small tragedies, yearnings and delusions that make up a life.
Author |
: Nan Shepherd |
Publisher |
: Canongate Books |
Total Pages |
: 140 |
Release |
: 2011-08-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857863607 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857863606 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Living Mountain by : Nan Shepherd
In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape. Shepherd spent a lifetime in search of the 'essential nature' of the Cairngorms; her quest led her to write this classic meditation on the magnificence of mountains, and on our imaginative relationship with the wild world around us. Composed during the Second World War, the manuscript of The Living Mountain lay untouched for more than thirty years before it was finally published.
Author |
: Nan Shepherd |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2019-03-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1903385334 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781903385333 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis In the Cairngorms by : Nan Shepherd
Hill-walking was Shepherd's great love; her single collection of poetry, 'In the Cairngorms', expresses an intensity of deep kinship with nature. They are poems written with the perception of one who has climbed the mountains and truly knows them.
Author |
: Nan Shepherd |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2019-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 191291610X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781912916108 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (0X Downloads) |
Synopsis Wild Geese by : Nan Shepherd
It will come as a very pleasant surprise to Nan Shepherd's growing following that there is a body of her work which has never been published in book form, and indeed will be entirely unknown outside a very small circle. The editor of this volume, Charlotte Peacock, found many of these gems when researching for the Nan Shepherd biography Into the Mountain, published by Galileo in 2017. The pieces that Peacock found include a brilliant and moving 10,000 word short story, "Descent from the Cross"; a series of 'field writings' which were written at the same time, and in the same style as, The Living Mountain; 15 poems, never seen before; a highly entertaining piece on the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid and, from where the title of this collection arises, a haunting description of "Wild Geese in Glen Callater" a version of which also went into The Living Mountain.
Author |
: Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Publisher |
: Amereon Limited |
Total Pages |
: 408 |
Release |
: 1927 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951D00832699A |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9A Downloads) |
Synopsis The War Chief by : Edgar Rice Burroughs
The War Chief by Edgar Rice Burroughs A white baby named Andy MacDuff is captured in a raid by the great Apache chief, Geronimo, adopted by the Indian leader, and raised by his youngest wife. The boy grows up such an expert hunter that he kills a black bear when he is only ten years old, and receives the name Shoz-Dijiji, the Black Bear. As he grows to young manhood he becomes an expert fighter, and falls in love with a beautiful Indian maiden named Ish-kay-nay. This is the original Argosy-Allstory Weekly pulp magazine text published in 1927. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author |
: John Patterson Green |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 480 |
Release |
: 1920 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433082421474 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fact Stranger Than Fiction by : John Patterson Green
Author |
: Rachael Mulheron |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 1111 |
Release |
: 2020-10-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108727648 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108727646 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Principles of Tort Law by : Rachael Mulheron
This book does what it 'says on the tin' - stating the corpus of tort law as a body of principles. Undertaken for the first time in English tort law, this book describes the law of tort concisely, accessibly, and accurately, and with both depth and detail.