The House with the Green Shutters (eBook)

George Douglas Brown (Autor)

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2020
212 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
406-406605877-7 (EAN)

Infos

Set in mid-19th century Ayrshire, in the fictitious town of Barbie the novel The House with the Green Shutters (1901) describes the struggles of a proud and taciturn carrier, John Gourlay, against the spiteful comments and petty machinations of the envious and idle villagers of Barbie (the "bodies"). The sudden return after fifteen years' absence of the ambitious merchant, James Wilson, son of a mole-catcher, leads to commercial competition against which Gourlay has trouble responding.

Autor

George Douglas Brown (1869 –1902) was a Scottish novelist, best known for his highly influential realist novel The House with the Green Shutters (1901). The novel gives a strongly outlined picture of the harder and less genial aspects of Scottish life and character, and was regarded as a useful corrective to the more roseate presentations of the kailyard school of J. M. Barrie and Ian Maclaren.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.5.2020
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Schlagworte: 19th century Scotland • Accidental competition • before we were yours • beneath a scarlet sky • Carrier vs merchant • Else Lasker-Schüler • Envious villagers • Hugh MacDiarmid • James Hogg • John Galt • Jules Verne • Lewis Grassic Gibbon • Literary rivalry theme • little fires everywhere • mid-19th century literature • Proud protagonist • scottish author • small town rivalry • Taciturn protagonist • Walter Scott