The Monarch of the Glen - Softcover

Mackenzie, Compton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099529548 ISBN 13: 9780099529545

Publisher: Vintage Books, 2009

Synopsis

American millionaire Chester Royde is in Scotland with his new bride Carrie and sister Myrtle to research Carrie’s Scottish ancestry. Their new “relatives” turn out to be rather more authentically Scottish than they bargained for. Ben Nevis, Laird of Glenbogle Castle, is cash-strapped and fiercely protective of his lands and the Macdonald clan spirit, but he’s not above attempts to marry heiress Myrtle to one of his brawny sons. When a group of hikers stumble on his moor and spoil a day’s hunting, it sparks an all-out war between gentry and commoners.

About this title

About the Author:

Compton Mackenzie was born in West Hartlepool in 1883. He was educated at St Paul's School and Magdalen College, Oxford. During the First World War he became a Captain in the Royal Marines, becoming Director of the Aegean Intelligence Service. He wrote more than ninety books - novels, history and biography, essays and criticism, children's stories and verse, and was also an outstanding broadcaster. He founded and edited until 1961 the magazine the Gramophone, and was President of the Siamese Cat Club. He lived for many years on the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, but later settled in Edinburgh. Compton Mackenzie died in 1972.

Review:

"Rollicking comedy" * Observer * "A riotous piece of virtuosity...divinely funny" -- Elizabeth Bowen * Tatler *

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0099529548
• ISBN 13: 9780099529545
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304