Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Rhyming reason Rhyming reason Michelle Faubert During the Romantic era, psychology and literature enjoyed a fluid relationship. Faubert focuses on a hitherto little -known group of psychologist-poets who grew out of the liberal literary-medical c… OL12642887W
The living mountain The living mountain Nan Shepherd The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain: said a newspaper of this when it was first published. The manuscript was completed in 1944, Nan Shepherd showed it to a friend, who th… OL12862894W
The Land out there The Land out there Bruce, George,Frank Rennie xiv, 342 p. : 23 cm OL15971278W
Precipitous city Precipitous city Trevor Royle Edinburgh is one of the most beautiful of the world's cities, a place of splendor whose craggy skyline brings together two entirely different worlds. To the south of its main thoroughfare, Princes St… OL1682016W
Literature and the Scottish Reformation Literature and the Scottish Reformation Crawford Gribben,David George Mullan Literature and the Scottish Reformation offers a full-scale reconsideration of the series of relationships between literature and Reformation in early modern Scotland. Previous scholarship in this ar… OL16983024W
Northern visions Northern visions Hewitt, David 212 p. ; 22 cm OL18275092W
For the childlike For the childlike Roderick McGillis A collection of essays discussing the work of the nineteenth-century Scottish author best known for his children's fairy tales. OL18319304W
Magic afoot Magic afoot Jennie Renton 278 p. : 24 cm OL18691233W
Arts and the Nation Arts and the Nation Alexander Moffat,Alan Riach 230 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm OL26329575W
Queen of the sheep Queen of the sheep Valerie Thornton,Hamish Whyte,Maoilios M. Caimbeul Forty-eight contributors this year, slightly down on Issue 21, but with about the same number of pieces. Twenty-seven men, twenty-one women: the gender balance is improving. And a good mixture of wel… OL28759168W
Tweed Rivers Tweed Rivers James Carter,Ken Cockburn Sections Tweed: source - Peebles, Tweed: Peebles - Coldstream and Tweed: Coldstream to Berwick; text by Katrina Porteous. OL28955882W
Fragments of union Fragments of union Susan Manning "Fragments of Union offers a new approach to comparative literary studies. It is a book about forms of connection: between nations, between literature, between individuals, and between words. It asks… OL4304134W