Серия &quot;Canongate Classics&quot;

Witch Wood

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Witch Wood

Witch Wood

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Introduced by Christopher Harvie. Set against the religious struggles of seventeenth-century Scotland, with Montrose for the king against a convenanted kirk, John Buchan’s Witch Wood is a gripping atmospheric tale in the spirit of Stevenson and Neil Munro. As a moderate Presbyterian minister, young David Sempill disputes with the extremists of his faith. All around, the defeated remnants of Montrose’s men are being harried and slaughtered by the faithful, and Sempill’s plea for compassion,...

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The Watcher by the Threshold

The Watcher by the Threshold

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Edited and introduced by Andrew Lownie. ‘The short story is the real form’ John Buchan This is the first ever complete collection of all Buchan’s shorter Scottish fiction. Set largely in his beloved Borders, these stories and novellas show the full range and depth of Buchan’s writing. Featuring shepherds, poachers, gamekeepers and drovers, they are worlds away from the tales of aristocratic adventure with which he is so often associated. Shot through with characters and places he returned...

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The Watcher by the Threshold

The Watcher by the Threshold

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The Master of Ballantrae

The Master of Ballantrae

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The Master of Ballantrae

The Master of Ballantrae

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The Golden Bough

J.G. Frazer

The Golden Bough

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J.G. Frazer

The Golden Bough

James George Frazer, J.G. Frazer и др.

The Golden Bough

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The Golden Bough is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer. The book documents and details the similarities among magical and religious beliefs around the globe. Frazer attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century...

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James George Frazer, J.G. Frazer и др.

Catriona

Catriona

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The New Testament In Scots

William L. Lorimer

The New Testament In Scots

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William L. Lorimer

Mr Alfred, M.A.

James Kennaway

Mr Alfred, M.A.

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James Kennaway

The Gowk Storm

Nancy Brysson Morrison

The Gowk Storm

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Introduced by Edwin Morgan. A ‘gowk storm’ is an untimely fall of snow in early Spring – a fitting symbol for the anguished story that unfolds. Nearly a hundred years ago, three girls were born to a minister and his wife in a remote Highland manse; the rigid patriarchal structure of the times is set against their approaching womanhood and growing awareness of life beyond the safety of home. After the disposal by marriage of the eldest, the sisters’ lives reach a new level of intensity....

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Nancy Brysson Morrison

The Corn King and the Spring Queen

The Corn King and the Spring Queen

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Introduced by Naomi Mitchison. Set over two thousand years ago on the clam and fertile shores of the Black Sea, Naomi Mitchison’s The Corn King and the Spring Queen tells of ancient civilisations where tenderness, beauty and love vie with brutality and dark magic. Erif Der, a young witch, is compelled by her father to marry his powerful rival, Tarrik the Corn King, so becoming the Spring Queen. Forced by her father, she uses her magic spells to try and break Tarrik’s power. But one...

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Cloud Howe

Cloud Howe

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Imagined Selves

Willa Muir

Imagined Selves

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This volume gathers together some of the real and the imagined lives of Willa Muir, one of the finest and fiercest intellectuals of her generation. Her writing is rich with paradox – although obsessively Scottish in subject and style, she resented Scotland; although a trenchant champion of feminism, she voluntarily sacrificed her identity to that of the 'poet's wife'; and although she was a committed reformer, she never aligned herself with any political or ideological...

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Willa Muir

The Canongate Burns

Robert Burns

The Canongate Burns

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A complete volume of the writer's poetry and songs includes previously unpublished pieces, draws on extensive scholarship and Burn's own letters, and offers supplemental information about his life, early hardships, political beliefs, and literary contexts.

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Robert Burns

Grey Granite

Grey Granite

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Growing Up In The West

John Muir

Growing Up In The West

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John Muir

Flemington And Tales From Angus

Violet Jacob

Flemington And Tales From Angus

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Violet Jacob

Journey to the Hebrides

Samuel Johnson

Journey to the Hebrides

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Samuel Johnson

The Blood Of The Martyrs

The Blood Of The Martyrs

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Introduced by Donald Smith. Set in Rome during Nero’s reign of terror, The Blood of the Martyrs is a disciplined historical novel tracing the destruction of one cell of the early church. With a cast of slaves, ordinary Roman people, exiles and entertainers, it is thorough in its historical interpretation and in its determination to make the past accessible and readable. Written in 1938-9, the novel contains many symbolic parallels to the rise of European fascism in the 1930s and the...

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