Author: Thomas UrquhartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The Works of Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, Knight
Author: Thomas UrquhartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Antiquarian Notes: a Series of Papers Regarding Families and Places in the Highlands. [Reprinted from the Inverness Advertiser and the Scottish Highlander.] 2 Ser
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Author: Charles Fraser MackintoshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Scottish Eccentrics
Author: Hugh MacDiarmidPublisher: Carcanet Press
ISBN: 9781857540130
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
MacDiarmid's study of the eccentric, impulsive Scottish genius is of his most important prose works, and takes its place as Volume IV of the MacDiarmid 2000 edition launched in 1992 to celebrate the centenary of his birth.
Urquhart and Glenmoriston
Author: William MackayPublisher:
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Category : Urguhart and Glenmoriston, Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Lairds of Cromarty
Author: Jean-Pierre OhlPublisher: Dedalus Europe 2012
ISBN: 9781907650741
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mary Guthrie, a student of English at Edinburgh University becomes fascinated by the fantastical 17th century writer, Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and sets out to write a thesis on him. She pursues her research in his ancestral home, Cromarty House, now a crumbling ruin. There under the current laird, Sir James she is drawn into an increasingly Gothic exploration of the history of the eccentric Urquharts and the maze of tunnels beneath the House. The Catholic priest of her parish, Ebenezer Krook, to whom she loses her virginity, is a distant and illegitimate descendant of Urquhart. He renounces his calling and goes to Edinburgh, where he is taken on by an idiosyncratic bookseller. Subconsciously he is searching for his father, who disappeared in the Spanish Civil War, leaving him with little more than a book and the memory of a boat trip to the Corryvreckan whirlpool, which allows for a cameo appearance by George Orwell. The novel captures the charm and atmosphere of Edinburgh and rural Scotland. Like Jean-Pierre Ohl's first novel, Mr Dick or The Tenth Book, this book will appeal to readers who like clever and unusual mysteries, where past and present, fact and fiction are ingeniously merged together.
The Works of Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, Knight
Author: Thomas UrquhartPublisher:
ISBN: 9780404529208
Category : Language, Universal
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
History of the Chisholms
Author: Alexander MackenziePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chisholm Clan
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Clan Chisholm is said to descend to have Norman origins and to have come from the borders of Scotland. However, for over six hundred years the clan has been associated with the highlands of Scotland, particularly Inverness, Sutherland, Ross and Caithness.
Early Modern Catalogues of Imaginary Books
Author: Anne-Pascale Pouey-MounouPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004413650
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
For this bilingual (English-French) anthology of early modern fictitious catalogues, selections were made from a multitude of texts, from the genre’s beginnings (Rabelais’s satirical catalogue of the Library of St.-Victor (1532)) to its French and Dutch specimens from around 1700. In thirteen chapters, written by specialists in the field, diverse texts containing fictitious booklists are presented and contextualized. Several of these texts are well known (by authors such as Fischart, Doni, and Le Noble), others – undeservedly – are less known, or even unrecorded. The anthology is preceded by a literary historical and theoretical introduction addressing the parodic and satirical aspects of the genre, and its relationship to other genres: theatre, novel, and pamphlet. Contributors: Helwi Blom, Tobias Bulang, Raphaël Cappellen, Ronnie Ferguson, Dirk Geirnaert, Jelle Koopmans, Marijke Meijer Drees, Claudine Nédelec, Patrizia Pellizzari, Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou, Paul J. Smith, and Dirk Werle.
The Book of the Duffs
Author: Alistair Norwich TaylerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Book of Mackay
Author: Angus MacKayPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 587912293X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description