Author: James Barke
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1847675190
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 635
Book Description
This huge novel, closer in scope to a Russian epic than to any English counterpart, opens at the turn of the century in the extreme poverty of the Rhinns of Galloway, an agricultural backwater of the southern-most part of Scotland. With a loving regard for the land and its people, Barke traces the lives of David and Jean Ramsay who, full of hope, painstakingly uproot themselves and their family in the search for prosperity. Their efforts to retain respect and a decent way of life are thwarted by unemployment in increasingly hostile circumstances, and a harsh environment inevitably leaves its mark. But a new generation emerges to question the authority of an uncaring society and, even as Fascism rages through Europe, a new hope is born. ‘Barke’s characters are both intelligent and spirited.’ Times Literary Supplement ‘An elegy for the old way of life.’ New Statesman
The Land Of The Leal
Author: James Barke
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1847675190
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 635
Book Description
This huge novel, closer in scope to a Russian epic than to any English counterpart, opens at the turn of the century in the extreme poverty of the Rhinns of Galloway, an agricultural backwater of the southern-most part of Scotland. With a loving regard for the land and its people, Barke traces the lives of David and Jean Ramsay who, full of hope, painstakingly uproot themselves and their family in the search for prosperity. Their efforts to retain respect and a decent way of life are thwarted by unemployment in increasingly hostile circumstances, and a harsh environment inevitably leaves its mark. But a new generation emerges to question the authority of an uncaring society and, even as Fascism rages through Europe, a new hope is born. ‘Barke’s characters are both intelligent and spirited.’ Times Literary Supplement ‘An elegy for the old way of life.’ New Statesman
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1847675190
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 635
Book Description
This huge novel, closer in scope to a Russian epic than to any English counterpart, opens at the turn of the century in the extreme poverty of the Rhinns of Galloway, an agricultural backwater of the southern-most part of Scotland. With a loving regard for the land and its people, Barke traces the lives of David and Jean Ramsay who, full of hope, painstakingly uproot themselves and their family in the search for prosperity. Their efforts to retain respect and a decent way of life are thwarted by unemployment in increasingly hostile circumstances, and a harsh environment inevitably leaves its mark. But a new generation emerges to question the authority of an uncaring society and, even as Fascism rages through Europe, a new hope is born. ‘Barke’s characters are both intelligent and spirited.’ Times Literary Supplement ‘An elegy for the old way of life.’ New Statesman
The Land O' the Leal
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Life and Songs of the Baroness Nairne
Author: Baroness Carolina Oliphant Nairne Nairne
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Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Pages : 326
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The Land of the Peal...in the Opera of Heart of Mid- Lothian
Author: Henry Bishop
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Pages : 2
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The Land of the Leal
Author: James Barke
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Pages : 640
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Pages : 640
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Our Familiar Songs and Those who Made Them
Author: Helen Kendrich Johnson
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Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Pages : 692
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The World's Best Music
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Languages : en
Pages : 280
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The Land O' the Leal
Author: William Montgomerie
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The Tearless Land
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Category : Heaven
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Category : Heaven
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature
Author: Robert Chambers
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Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Pages : 860
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