Scottish Literature


Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Trainspotting
Treasure Island
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Peter Pan (Peter Pan, #2)
Shuggie Bain
Poor Things
Waverley
Ivanhoe
The Wasp Factory
Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Rob Roy (Waverley Novels, #4)
Glenda Norquay
In the complexity of its structure, its kaleidoscope of perspectives, its confrontation with the effects of the First World War, its attentiveness to experience at all life stages and it embrace of linguistic, formal and philosophical 'difficulty', The Weatherhouse is arguably the great Scottish modernist feminist novel of the period. ...more
Glenda Norquay, The International Companion to the Scottish Novel

J.B. Pick
Since the success of the kailyard writers was comparatively short-lived, and their ambitions limited, it seems peculiar to non-Scottish readers that the persistence of the reaction to them was so intense that 'sentimentality' remains to this day a term of literary abuse to which no defence may be offered, and counter-kailyarders go to extraordinary lengths to eliminate from their work the least trace of theological light or metaphysical hope. ...more
J.B. Pick, The Great Shadow House: Essays on the Metaphysical Tradition in Scottish Fiction

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