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050 00 $aPR8676$b.O94 1995
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245 04 $aThe Oxford book of Scottish short stories /$cedited by Douglas Dunn.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1995.
263 $a9504
300 $axxix, 476 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [475]-476) and index.
505 00 $tThe Battle of the Birds --$tThe Wee Bannock --$tDeath in a Nut --$tThe Cameronian Preacher's Tale /$rJames Hogg --$tThe Two Drovers /$rWalter Scott --$tThe Howdie: An Autobiography /$rJohn Galt --$tBaubie Huie's Bastard Geet /$rWilliam Alexander --$tThe Cunning Speech of Drumtochty /$rIan Maclaren --$tA Lodging for the Night /$rRobert Louis Stevenson --$tThrawn Janet /$rRobert Louis Stevenson --$tfrom Fables /$rRobert Louis Stevenson --$tUn Infeliz /$rR. B. Cunninghame Graham --$tMiss Armstrong's Circumstances /$rJohn Davidson --$t'The Heather Lintie' /$rS. R. Crockett --$tA Literary Club /$rJ. M. Barrie --$tThe Debatable Land /$rViolet Jacob --$tThe Loathly Opposite /$rJohn Buchan --$tSilk Both Sides /$rLorna Moon (Helen Nora Wilson Low) --$tThe Tax-Gatherer /$rNeil Gunn --$tDance of the Apprentices /$rEdward Gaitens --$tCountry-Born /$rEric Linklater --$tSmeddum /$rLewis Grassic Gibbon --$tThe Donegals /$rRobert McLellan --$tI'm Leaving You /$rGeorge Friel --$tThe Last Sister /$rFred Urquhart --
505 80 $tA Far Cry from Bowmore /$rRobin Jenkins --$tThe Life and Death of George Wilson /$rNeil Paterson --$tThe Gowk /$rJessie Kesson --$tBang-Bang You're Dead /$rMuriel Spark --$tA Map of the World /$rElspeth Davie --$tAndrina /$rGeorge Mackay Brown --$tAn American Sky /$rIain Crichton Smith --$tPrometheus /$rAlasdair Gray --$tPerformance /$rWilliam McIlvanney --$tThe One-Legged Men /$rEric McCormack --$tViolets and Strawberries in the Snow /$rShena Mackay --$tHome for a Couple of Days /$rJames Kelman --$tIts Colours They are Fine /$rAlan Spence --$tAn Apple from a Tree /$rMargaret Elphinstone --$tMerlewood /$rRonald Frame --$tStreet of the Three Terraces /$rDilys Rose --$tBlood /$rJanice Galloway --$tDoubled Up With Pain /$rDuncan McLean --$tNight Geometry and the Garscadden Trains /$rA. L. Kennedy.
520 $aFrom the ghostly and unlikely, to pungent social realism, and from the comfortable to the challenging, whether rural or urban, supernatural or true-to-life, this anthology shows the vitality of the Scottish short story.
520 8 $aThe collection includes such wonderful traditional tales as 'The Wee Bannock'. It contains household names such as Sir Walter Scott, the pioneer of the modern literary story, and Robert Louis Stevenson. The Kailyard School is usually excluded from anthologies of this kind; but there are stories here by J. M. Barrie, Ian MacLaren, and S. R.
520 8 $aCrockett, as well as work by writers as varied as John Davidson, Violet Jacob, Neil Gunn, Eric Linklater, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Muriel Spark, Alasdair Gray, and James Kelman. Younger writers are strongly represented; among them such talents as Ronald Frame, Janice Galloway, and A. L. Kennedy.
520 8 $a. The selection reveals a series of remarkable contrasts between urban and rural, demotic Scots vernacular and elegant English prose, the sentimental and the critical, the supernatural and the realistic. With an informative introductory essay by Douglas Dunn, the book presents a superb selection of the best of Scottish writing.
650 0 $aShort stories, Scottish.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008000430
651 0 $aScotland$xSocial life and customs$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116926
700 1 $aDunn, Douglas.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50024917
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR8676$i.O94 1996