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The Oxford book of Scottish short stories / edited by Douglas Dunn.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: xxix, 476 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199556540
  • 0-19-955654-7
Other title:
  • Scottish short stories
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.01089411 22
Contents:
The battle of the birds -- The wee bannock -- Death in a nut -- The Cameronian preacher's tale / James Hogg -- The two drovers / Sir Walter Scott -- The Howdie : an autobiography / John Galt -- Baubie Huie's bastard geet / William Alexander -- The cunning speech of Drumtochty / 'Ian Maclaren' (revd John Watson) -- A lodging for the night ; Thrawn Janet ; from Fables / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Un Infeliz / R.B. Cunninghame Graham -- Miss Armstrong's circumstances / John Davidson -- The heather lintie / S.R. Crockett -- A literary club / J.M. Barrie -- The debatable land / Violet Jacob -- The loathly opposite / John Buchan -- Silk both sides / Lorna Moon (Helen Nora Wilson Low) -- The tax-gatherer / Neil Gunn -- Dance of the apprentices / Edward Gaitens -- Country-born / Eric Linklater -- Smeddum / Lewis Grassic Gibbon (J. Leslie Mitchell) -- The Donegals / Robert McLellan -- I'm leaving you / George Friel -- The last sister / Fred Urquhart -- A far cry from Bowmore / Robin Jenkins -- The life and death of George Wilson / Neil Paterson -- The gowk / Jessie Kesson -- Bang-Bang you're dead / Muriel Spark -- A map of the world / Elspeth Davie -- Andrina / George Mackay Brown -- An American sky / Iain Crichton Smith -- Prometheus / Alasdair Gray -- Performance / William McIlvanney -- The one-legged men / Eric McCormack -- Violets and strawberries in the snow / Shena Mackay -- Home for a couple of days / James Kelman -- Its colours they are fine / Alan Spence -- An apple from a tree / Margaret Elphinstone -- Merlewood / Ronald Frame -- Street of the three terraces / Dilys Rose -- Blood / Janice Galloway -- Doubled up with pain / Duncan McLean -- Night geometry and the Garscadden trains / A.L. Kennedy.
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Originally published: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The battle of the birds -- The wee bannock -- Death in a nut -- The Cameronian preacher's tale / James Hogg -- The two drovers / Sir Walter Scott -- The Howdie : an autobiography / John Galt -- Baubie Huie's bastard geet / William Alexander -- The cunning speech of Drumtochty / 'Ian Maclaren' (revd John Watson) -- A lodging for the night ; Thrawn Janet ; from Fables / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Un Infeliz / R.B. Cunninghame Graham -- Miss Armstrong's circumstances / John Davidson -- The heather lintie / S.R. Crockett -- A literary club / J.M. Barrie -- The debatable land / Violet Jacob -- The loathly opposite / John Buchan -- Silk both sides / Lorna Moon (Helen Nora Wilson Low) -- The tax-gatherer / Neil Gunn -- Dance of the apprentices / Edward Gaitens -- Country-born / Eric Linklater -- Smeddum / Lewis Grassic Gibbon (J. Leslie Mitchell) -- The Donegals / Robert McLellan -- I'm leaving you / George Friel -- The last sister / Fred Urquhart -- A far cry from Bowmore / Robin Jenkins -- The life and death of George Wilson / Neil Paterson -- The gowk / Jessie Kesson -- Bang-Bang you're dead / Muriel Spark -- A map of the world / Elspeth Davie -- Andrina / George Mackay Brown -- An American sky / Iain Crichton Smith -- Prometheus / Alasdair Gray -- Performance / William McIlvanney -- The one-legged men / Eric McCormack -- Violets and strawberries in the snow / Shena Mackay -- Home for a couple of days / James Kelman -- Its colours they are fine / Alan Spence -- An apple from a tree / Margaret Elphinstone -- Merlewood / Ronald Frame -- Street of the three terraces / Dilys Rose -- Blood / Janice Galloway -- Doubled up with pain / Duncan McLean -- Night geometry and the Garscadden trains / A.L. Kennedy.