The Collected Works of Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Unabridged) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Scots Quair - Complete Trilogy: Sunset Song, Cloud HoweII & Grey Granite; Three Go BackBy Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Length34h 18m
About this audiobook
The Collected Works of Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Unabridged) presents the full range of a writer whose fiction fused modernist experiment with a profound feeling for landscape, history, and social change. Best known for A Scots Quair—Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, and Grey Granite—Gibbon renders rural and urban Scotland in a lyrical prose inflected by Scots rhythms, yet shaped by European modernism and political urgency. His work moves between elegy and critique, tracing the erosion of traditional communities under capitalism, war, industrialisation, and ideological conflict. Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pen name of James Leslie Mitchell, born in 1901 in Aberdeenshire. His upbringing among farming communities, later service in the Royal Army Service Corps and Royal Air Force, and restless intellectual engagement with socialism, anthropology, and history all inform his fiction. Mitchell's double identity—as Scottish regional chronicler and cosmopolitan radical—helps explain the unusual breadth of these collected writings and their blend of intimacy, satire, and historical imagination. This unabridged collection is recommended to readers of Scottish literature, modernist fiction, and socially committed narrative. It offers not merely a set of novels, but a searching literary anatomy of a nation in transition.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 4.6 (18)
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length34 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 13, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Collected Works of Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Unabridged) (Annotated)
14CLOUD HOWE (pt. 2)
2Introduction
15CLOUD HOWE (pt. 3)
3Historical Context
16CLOUD HOWE (pt. 4)
4Synopsis (Selection)
17GREY GRANITE (pt. 1)
5A SCOTS QUAIR
18GREY GRANITE (pt. 2)
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6SUNSET SONG
19GREY GRANITE (pt. 3)
7PRELUDE
20GREY GRANITE (pt. 4)
8THE SONG (pt. 1)
21Three Go Back: A Powerful Story Mixed with Science and Sex (pt. 1)
9THE SONG (pt. 2)
22Three Go Back: A Powerful Story Mixed with Science and Sex (pt. 2)
10THE SONG (pt. 3)
23Three Go Back: A Powerful Story Mixed with Science and Sex (pt. 3)
11THE SONG (pt. 4)
24Analysis
12EPILUDE
25Reflection
13CLOUD HOWE (pt. 1)
26Memorable Quotes
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