Erchie, My Droll Friend - Softcover
Publisher: Edinburgh : Blackwood Publication date: 1904 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
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Review:
... the stories are so well introduced and annotated that I simply suggest you buy them for delight and serious pleasure. -- Books in Scotland, Spring 1994
From the Author:
Undoubtedly Neil Munro's most famous comic creation is Para Handy but before Munro wrote about his puffer skipper and the adventures of the Vital Spark he had won countless admirers for his stories of Erchie MacPherson, Glasgow waiter and Church Beadle.
These stories first appeared in Munro's column in the Glasgow Evening News and a selection of 29 of them were published in book form in 1904. However Munro kept on writing about his shrewd and humorous Glaswegian right up to 1926.
Ronnie Armstrong and I edited an earlier collection of Erchie MacPherson stories, pairing them with Munro's third comic creation Jimmy Swan in an omnibus edition for Birlinn in 1993. At this time we had found 52 uncollected Erchie stories by Munro in the newspaper archive - however further research has unearthed another 61 stories - making a grand total of 142 stories which show Munro at his funniest and most perceptive. The sheer bulk of these stories has forced the separare publication of the Erchie stories and the Jimmy Swan, the Joy Traveller stories.
The Erchie stories, like the Para Handy stories, are generally inspired by a contemporary event, a fashion, a local happening, which Munro comments on through his characters - so wars, exhibitions, coronations, strikes, boxing matches, the transfer market in footballers, holidays and solar eclipses all come under Erchie MacPherson's witty gaze.
If you haven't already got to know Erchie MacPherson, or if you only know the 29 stories published in Munro's lifetime, or even the 81 stories that appeared in our previous edition, then you have a treat in store!
As in our editions of Para Handy and Jimmy Swan we have provided comprehensive notes to explain the local and topical references and a full introduction to help set these wonderful period pieces in context.
These stories first appeared in Munro's column in the Glasgow Evening News and a selection of 29 of them were published in book form in 1904. However Munro kept on writing about his shrewd and humorous Glaswegian right up to 1926.
Ronnie Armstrong and I edited an earlier collection of Erchie MacPherson stories, pairing them with Munro's third comic creation Jimmy Swan in an omnibus edition for Birlinn in 1993. At this time we had found 52 uncollected Erchie stories by Munro in the newspaper archive - however further research has unearthed another 61 stories - making a grand total of 142 stories which show Munro at his funniest and most perceptive. The sheer bulk of these stories has forced the separare publication of the Erchie stories and the Jimmy Swan, the Joy Traveller stories.
The Erchie stories, like the Para Handy stories, are generally inspired by a contemporary event, a fashion, a local happening, which Munro comments on through his characters - so wars, exhibitions, coronations, strikes, boxing matches, the transfer market in footballers, holidays and solar eclipses all come under Erchie MacPherson's witty gaze.
If you haven't already got to know Erchie MacPherson, or if you only know the 29 stories published in Munro's lifetime, or even the 81 stories that appeared in our previous edition, then you have a treat in store!
As in our editions of Para Handy and Jimmy Swan we have provided comprehensive notes to explain the local and topical references and a full introduction to help set these wonderful period pieces in context.
Brian D Osborne and Ronald Armstrong (Joint editors)
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1152524402
- ISBN 13 9781152524408
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages94
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