The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories

The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories

by Douglas Dunn (Editor)

Synopsis

From the ghostly and unlikely, to pungent social realism, and from the comfortable to the challenging, whether rural or urban, supernatural or true-to-life, in demotic Scots vernacular and elegant English prose, this anthology shows the vitality of the Scottish short story. The collection includes such wonderful traditional tales as 'The Wee Bannock' and household names such as Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, J. M. Barrie, as well as works by writers as varied as James Kelman, Violet Jacob, Neil Gunn, Eric Linklater, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Muriel Spark, Alasdair Gray, Ronald Frame, and Janice Galloway.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 512
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 18 Apr 1996

ISBN 10: 0192825216
ISBN 13: 9780192825216

Media Reviews
The quality of the whole selection is very high. --Booklist
The rollcall of names in this collection is impressive. --The Irish Times


The quality of the whole selection is very high. --Booklist
The rollcall of names in this collection is impressive. --The Irish Times

The quality of the whole selection is very high. --Booklist
The rollcall of names in this collection is impressive. --The Irish Times


The quality of the whole selection is very high. --Booklist


The rollcall of names in this collection is impressive. --The Irish Times


Author Bio

About the Editor:
Douglas Dunn is Professor of English and Scottish Literature at the University of St. Andrews. One of Scotland's finest contemporary poets, his collection Elegies won the Whitbread Prize. He is also a noted writer of short stories.