The achingly beautiful Scottish novel now adapted as an acclaimed feature film directed by Terence Davies (The House of Mirth, The Deep Blue Sea) Young Chris Guthrie lives a brutal life in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, torn between her passion for the land, duty to her family and her love of books. When her mother, broken by repeated childbirths, takes her own life and poisons her two youngest children, Chris is left with her father to run the farm on her own. Soon she is alone, and for the first time can choose how to spend her life. But as the First World War begins, everything changes, and the young men leave Scotland for battle. The first in Gibbon’s classic trilogy A Scot’s Quair, Sunset Song is infused with local vernacular, and innovatively blends Scots and English in an intense description of Scottish life in the early twentieth century. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Sunset Song (Penguin Classics)

Arts & Photography

Gibbon, Lewis Grassic

History & Criticism

Penguin Classics

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Sunset Song (Scots Quair, Book 1)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Pan.

Lewis Grassic Gibbon's most famous work and indeed his greatest achievement is A Scots Quair. The Quair (meaning book), is a trilogy which was published over three years as Sunset Song (1932), Cloud Howe (1933), and Grey Granite (1934). Following the life of its heroine Chris Guthrie, the three novels take the reader from the Great War to the growing communism of the 1920s and are innovative in their style, language and thought.

Grey Granite (Book Three of a Scots Quair)

Classics

Cloud Howe (Scots Quair, Book 2)

Pan Books

A Scots Quair (Sunset Song; Cloud Howe; Grey Granite)

A Scots Quair: 'Sunset Song', 'Cloud Howe' and 'Grey Granite'

Contemporary

Sharply observed portrait of a rural community through the eyes of a young boy by one of Scotland's major literary figures.

The Speak of the Mearns (Polygon Lewis Grassic Gibbon Series)

Polygon

Three survivors from an airship crash find themselves washed up on an apparently deserted beach. Moving inland they can scarcely believe their situation: they've travelled 25,000 years back in time to the lost continent of Atlantis.

Three Go Back

Edinburgh University Press

Nine Against the Unknown is the story of nine great explorers who in their deliberate adventuring into the unknown to search for the Fortunate Land, the Isles of Youth, the Golden City -all legendary lands rising originally, in the dawn of history, from a Mediterranean myth -achieved the greater measure of manÃ‚Â´s conquest of the earth. They tell of Leif Ericsson and his coming to America four hundred and eighty years before Columbus; of Marco PoloÃ‚Â´s great land journeys to Cathay and beyond; of Columbus, led by a dozen rumours, sailing across the Atlantic; of Cabeza de Vaca, that enigmatic Spaniard who searched North America for the Golden City of Ciboa; of Magellan, the first to reach the East Indies from the west; of Vitus Bering, the discoverer of Bering Strait, and his search for Gama Land in the North Pacific; of Richard BurtonÃ‚Â´s innumerable quests in three continents for the golden unknown land; and of NansenÃ‚Â´s great drift in the Fram towards the last refuge of the Fortunate Land, the North Pole. This is a record of geographical exploration from a time when many believed that the future of humankind lay in the recovery of freedom -of spirit, of belief, of society.

Nine Against the Unknown: A Record of Geographical Exploration

History

World

The stories comprising the Scottish masterpiece, which spans the years from before World War I to the Great Depression, are marked by their poetic intensity and strong characterizations

Scots Quair

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