The Lost Cause : A Jacobite Play : Compton Mackenzie : Tartan Covers 1st 1933

The Lost Cause: A Jacobite Play

By Compton Mackenzie

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1933. First Edition. Card covers with tartan covers. 90 pages.

A very good and well-preserved copy. The covers are in very good condition and the pages are clean throughout. No names or writing to the book. Pages clean throughout. Overall very good.

Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, OBE (17 January 1883 – 30 November 1972) was a Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist. He was one of the co-founders in 1928 of the National Party of Scotland along with Hugh MacDiarmid, R. B. Cunninghame Graham and John MacCormick. He was knighted in 1952.

Mackenzie is perhaps best known for two comic novels set in Scotland: Whisky Galore (1947) set in the Hebrides, and The Monarch of the Glen (1941) set in the Scottish Highlands. They were the sources of a successful film and a television series respectively. He published almost a hundred books on different subjects, including ten volumes of autobiography: My Life and Times (1963–71). He wrote history (on the Battle of Marathon and the Battle of Salamis), biography (Mr Roosevelt, a 1943 biography of FDR), literary criticism, satires, apologia (Sublime Tobacco 1957), children's stories, poetry and so on.

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