| Flemington and Tales from Angus Main Edition Contributor(s): Jacob, Violet (Author), Anderson, Carol (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0862417848 ISBN-13: 9780862417840 Publisher: Canongate Books OUR PRICE: $20.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Canongate Classics S |
| Physical Information: 1.39" H x 5" W x 7.74" (0.96 lbs) 568 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 'I think it is the best Scots romance since The Master of Ballantrae, ' said John Buchan when Flemington was first published in 1911. Violet Jacob's fifth and finest novel is a tragic drama of the 1745 Jacobite Rising, tightly written, poetic in its symbolic intensity, lit by flashes of humour and informed by the author's own family history as one of the Erskines of the House of Dun near Montrose. Drawn back to these roots in her later years, Violet Jacob also wrote many unforgettable short stories about the people, the landscapes and the language of the North-east. In this volume fourteen of these stories are re-collected and re-edited as Tales from Angus. |