Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights - Softcover

Grassic Gibbon, Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748662316 ISBN 13: 9780748662319

Publisher: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited, 2001

Synopsis

Far removed from the recognisable Scottish and rural themes of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's best known works, Persisan Dawn, Egyptian Nights, (first published in the 1930s), gives full reign to Gibbon's fascination with the fantastic and exotic following his military service in the Far East. In this collection we encounter a sorcerer on a quest for Life's lost constituent; a hunt for the last Neanderthal man; we watch a strange drama being played out in the Garden of Eden; and read how a Bishop inverted a famous text to save his own soul.

About this title

Review:

`Gibbon should emerge as what he surely is, the greatest British regional novelist in the 20thC.' London Review of Books; Reviews scheduled for TLS, Observer, Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, LRB; BBC Radio series of Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights scheduled for October; BBC TV documentary on Lewis Grassic Gibbon's life due Autumn 1997

About the Author:

Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) was born in 1901 in Aberdeenshire. He died at the age of 34 but squeezed into a very short life several novels, collections of short stories, essays and science fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0748662316
• ISBN 13: 9780748662319
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256