Product Description: With a strong, vibrant use of Scots, McLellan intermingles comedy with serious moral and political content. McLellan's collected works brings together previously unpublished plays like Jeddart Justice with acknowledged classics such as Jamie the Saxt and a selection of his prize-winning poems...read more

First published in 1899.

Product Description: In his own lifetime and for nearly a hundred years James Hogg was was seen as the natural, if lesser, inheritor of the mantle of Robert Burns. Hogg was "the Ettrick Shepherd," self-taught, author of the long poem The Queen's Wake and numerous poems and songs of Border life and love, befriended by Walter Scott and presented in the pages of Blackwood's Magazine as a colourful, boastful, deep-drinking rustic...read more

Product Description: This full-length introductory study, first published in 1983, compares and contrasts these two writers. After setting Gunn and Gibbon in the context of the Scottish Renaissance - arguably, says Douglas Gifford, one of the richest periods of all Scottish Literature - it goes on to give an overview of each writer's work as a whole...read more

Product Description: Illustrating how ideas of Scotland as a nation and a place of belonging have changed significantly over the past one thousand years, these poems are either entitled "Scotland" or focus centrally on the issue of nation and place. The Gaelic poets, the Scottish Renaissance, and modern poets including Edwin Morgan, Norman MacCaig, and Liz Lochhead illustrate the astonishing variety of responses to the idea of nationhood...read more

Product Description: This substantial new volume is a stimulating yet in-depth introduction to Scottish literature in English and Scots. From medieval to modern, the entire range of literature is introduced, examined and explored. Aimed primarily at those with an interest in Scottish literature, this guide also responds to the need for students and teachers to have detailed discussions of individual authors and texts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Scottish Literature - character and influence, critic Gregory Smith distinguished the contrasting grip of fact of history and the airier pleasure of literature. These essays show how the two strands separated over the years while remaining interpreters of the past and of human experience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing, featuring writers such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark, and Liz Lochhead. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Tales from the Aztecs, Toltecs, Mayans, Incas, Amazons, Patagonians, and other native peoples that once thrived south of the United States are matched with striking illustrations, a guide to the stories' symbolism, and much more.

Product Description: Guerreros, Dioses Y Espiritus De LA Mitologia De America/Warriors, Gods and Spirits of Central and South America Mythology/Serie Mitologias/Mythology. TEXTOS DE DOUGLAS GIFFORD AND ILLUSTRACIONES DE JOHN SIBBICK

Product Description: Book by Friel, George