Lewis Grassic Gibbon - 9781789620634

Lewis Grassic GibbonAuthor(s): William K. Malcolm\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781789620634, 978-1789620634\nSynopsis\nLewis\nGrassic Gibbon galvanised the Scottish literary scene in 1932 with Sunset\nSong, the first novel of the epic trilogy A Scots Quair, which drew\nvividly upon his upbringing on a croft in Aberdeenshire to capture the\nzeitgeist of the early twentieth century and provide a compelling moral mandate\nfor social and political change in the inter-war period. Yet his literary\nlegacy of seventeen volumes produced in his short life, under his own name of\nJames Leslie Mitchell as well as his Scots pseudonym, testify to his\nversatility, as historian, essayist, biographer and fiction writer. Set against\nan informed conspectus of the author??s life and times and incorporating\nsubstantive new source material, this study highlights his core principles,\nrooted in his rural upbrin.