The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories by Dunn, Douglas

The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199556540)

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The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories by Dunn, Douglas

The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories

$20.99
The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories by Dunn, Douglas

The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories

$20.99
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Douglas Dunn
ISBN-10: 0199556547
ISBN-13: 9780199556540
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2008
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.00w x 1.30d
By Douglas Dunn
By Douglas Dunn
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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).

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