NEIL M. GUNN Selected Letters - Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s & 30s
NEIL M. GUNN Selected Letters - Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s & 30s
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NEIL M. GUNN : SELECTED LETTERS
Compiled and Introduced by J.B. Pick
Published by Polygon, Edinburgh, 1987. First Edition. Hardback book with dust jacket. 264 pages.
A very good clean first edition. The dust jacket is very good and the book is in very clean condition throughout. No writing or names. A very good first edition.
Neil Miller Gunn (8 November 1891 – 15 January 1973) was a prolific novelist, critic, and dramatist who emerged as one of the leading lights of the Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. With over twenty novels to his credit, Gunn was arguably the most influential Scottish fiction writer of the first half of the 20th century (with the possible exception of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the pen name of James Leslie Mitchell).
Like his contemporary, Hugh MacDiarmid, Gunn was politically committed to the ideals of both Scottish nationalism and socialism (a difficult balance to maintain for a writer of his time). His fiction deals primarily with the Highland communities and landscapes of his youth, though the author chose (contra MacDiarmid and his followers) to write almost exclusively in English rather than Scots or Gaelic but was heavily influenced in his writing style by the language.
Compiled and Introduced by J.B. Pick
Published by Polygon, Edinburgh, 1987. First Edition. Hardback book with dust jacket. 264 pages.
A very good clean first edition. The dust jacket is very good and the book is in very clean condition throughout. No writing or names. A very good first edition.
Neil Miller Gunn (8 November 1891 – 15 January 1973) was a prolific novelist, critic, and dramatist who emerged as one of the leading lights of the Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. With over twenty novels to his credit, Gunn was arguably the most influential Scottish fiction writer of the first half of the 20th century (with the possible exception of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the pen name of James Leslie Mitchell).
Like his contemporary, Hugh MacDiarmid, Gunn was politically committed to the ideals of both Scottish nationalism and socialism (a difficult balance to maintain for a writer of his time). His fiction deals primarily with the Highland communities and landscapes of his youth, though the author chose (contra MacDiarmid and his followers) to write almost exclusively in English rather than Scots or Gaelic but was heavily influenced in his writing style by the language.
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