The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199556547 ISBN 13: 9780199556540

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Douglas Dunn's eclectic selection displays the marvellous range of Scottish story-telling, beginning with three early traditional tales, and including a wealth of writers from the last three centuries: amongst them Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, J.M. Barrie, Violet Jacob, Neil Gunn, Eric Linklater, Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, and younger talents such as Ronald Frame, Janice Galloway, and A.L. Kennedy.

About this title

About the Author:

Douglas Dunn is Professor of English and Director of St Andrew's Scottish Studies Institute at St Andrew's University. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1981. He lives in Scotland. He was awarded an OBE in 2003.

Dunn's first collection of poetry, Terry Street, was published by in 1969, and was awarded both a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. Love or Nothing (1974) was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1976. His other poetry books include St. Kilda's Parliament (1981), winner of the Hawthornden Prize in 1981, and the acclaimed Elegies (1985), winner of Whitbread Book of the Year. Secret Villages, a collection of short stories, was published in 1985. More recent publications include a collection of short stories, Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1995), and three poetry collections, including New Selected Poems 1964-2000 (2002).

Review:

"This is the most substantial anthology of short stories from Scotland to appear in some years, and as such should be welcomed.... a comprehensive overview of the development of the short story in Scotland."--The List

"Every story here, without exception, contains the verb to say. These stories embody the 'speak' of those places which help to comprise the small but complex, multifarious nation we call ours. In this way they embellish the term Scottish in the volume's title, and help subtly to define it.--Stewart Conn, Scotland on Sunday

"It is a thorough, bread-and-butter summation of the best and the wisest, the most famous and the more cobwebbed exponents of the form."--Bella Bathurst, The Scotsman

"This enthralling anthology features Dunn's favorites and a fine lot they are."--Alan Bold, The Herald

"The great value of this anthology is that it shows us what we have been missing.... Dunn's introduction is fascinating and informative.... OUP has produced several anthologies of short stories based around culture or nationhood. This is a welcome and worthy addition to that series."--Sunderland Echo

"The rollcall of names in this collection is impressive."--The Irish Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0199556547
• ISBN 13: 9780199556540
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Dunn Douglas