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Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Born

in Auchterless, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

February 13, 1901

Died

February 07, 1935

Genre

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Influences

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Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pen name of the Scottish author James Leslie Mitchell.

Born in Auchterless and raised in Arbuthnott, then in Kincardineshire, Mitchell started working as a journalist for the Aberdeen Journal and the Scottish Farmer at age 16. In 1919 he joined the Royal Army Service Corps and served in Iran, India and Egypt before enlisting in the Royal Air Force in 1920. In the RAF he worked as a clerk and spent some time in the Middle East. He married Rebecca Middleton in 1925, with whom he settled in Welwyn Garden City. He began writing full-time in 1929. Mitchell wrote numerous books and shorter works under both his real name and nom de plume before his early death in 1935 of peritonitis brought on by a perforated ulcer. ...more

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Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s books

Average rating: 4.0 · 7,911 ratings · 815 reviews · 73 distinct works • Similar authors

	Sunset Song (A Scots Quair, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 5,536 ratings — published 1932 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Scots Quair: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, Grey Granite by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Ian Campbell (Editor) 4.22 avg rating — 979 ratings — published 1934 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cloud Howe 3.82 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 1933 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grey Granite (A Scots Quair, #3) 3.75 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 1934 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spartacus 3.86 avg rating — 290 ratings — published 1933 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Smeddum: A Lewis Grassic Gibbon Anthology by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Valentina Bold (Editor) 3.98 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2001 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Go Back by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, James Leslie Mitchell 3.39 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1932 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Speak of the Mearns (Polygon Lewis Grassic Gibbon Series) by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Ian Campbell (Introduction), Jeremy Idle (Introduction) 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1982 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The 13th Disciple by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, James Leslie Mitchell 3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1931 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Scots Hairst: Essays and Short Stories by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, James Leslie Mitchell, Ian S. Munro (Editor) 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1967 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A Scots Quair (3 books)
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“So that was Chris and her reading and schooling, two Chrisses there were that fought for her heart and tormented her. You hated the land and the coarse speak of the folk and learning was brave and fine one day; and the next you'd waken with the peewits crying across the hills, deep and deep, crying in the heart of you and the smell of the earth in your face, almost you'd cry for that, the beauty of it and the sweetness of the Scottish land and skies.”
― Lewis Grassic Gibbon

tags: chris-guthrie, scottish-fiction

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“there were lovely things in the world, lovely that didn't endure, and the lovelier for that... Nothing endures.”
― Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song

tags: beauty, scotland

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“So it was that she knew she liked him, loved him as they said in the soppy English books, you were shamed and a fool to say that in Scotland.”
― Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song

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