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    A SCOTS QUAIR: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe & Grey Granite (World's Classics Series): A Gripping Trilogy of a Woman's Life amidst the Radically Changing World (One of the Most Important British Novels of the 20th Century)
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    A SCOTS QUAIR: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe & Grey Granite (World's Classics Series): A Gripping Trilogy of a Woman's Life amidst the Radically Changing World (One of the Most Important British Novels of the 20th Century)
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    A SCOTS QUAIR: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe & Grey Granite (World's Classics Series): A Gripping Trilogy of a Woman's Life amidst the Radically Changing World (One of the Most Important British Novels of the 20th Century)
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    A SCOTS QUAIR: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe & Grey Granite (World's Classics Series): A Gripping Trilogy of a Woman's Life amidst the Radically Changing World (One of the Most Important British Novels of the 20th Century)

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    This carefully crafted ebook: "A SCOTS QUAIR: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe & Grey Granite (World's Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
    Sunset Song is the first book of the trilogy A Scots Quair and widely regarded as one of the most important Scottish novels of the 20th century. Chris Guthrie, the female protagonist, is a strong character who grows up in a dysfunctional farming family. Life is hard after her dad's death and she must take some tough decisions to save her farms under the inevitable threat of World War I.
    Cloud HoweII is the story of Chris Guthrie and her second husband Robert. They move to Segget, a mill town where a class struggle is taking shape and Robert is at the helm of political affairs.
    Grey Granite is the final book of the trilogy and the story of Ewan, Chris's son in the depression era. Ewan is forced to become a communist activist due to violence and police brutality. But everything is threatened when the cause becomes bigger than the people around him.
    Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (1901 – 1935), a Scottish writer famous for his contribution to the Scottish Renaissance and portrayal of strong female characters.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publishere-artnow
    Release dateApr 13, 2016
    ISBN9788026853244
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    A SCOTS QUAIR: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe & Grey Granite (World's Classics Series): A Gripping Trilogy of a Woman's Life amidst the Radically Changing World (One of the Most Important British Novels of the 20th Century)
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    Lewis Grassic Gibbon

    Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. Born in Aberdeenshire in 1901, he died at the age of thirty-four. He was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays and science fiction, and his writing reflected his wide interest in religion, archaeology, history, politics and science. The Mearns trilogy, A Scots Quair, is his most renowned work, and has become a landmark in Scottish literature.

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