{"product_id":"9780862419653","title":"Smeddum: A Lewis Grassic Gibbon Anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis selection of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's writing brings together old favourites and new material for the first time. There are all his lively contributions to \u003ci\u003eScottish Scene \u003c\/i\u003e (co-written by Hugh MacDiarmid) including the unforgettable lilt and flow of his short stories 'Smeddum', 'Clay', 'Greendenn', 'Sim' and 'Forsaken'. The anthology ends with the full text of his last novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Speak of the Mearns\u003c\/i\u003e , unpublished in his lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eValentina Bold has also included a collection of poems, 'Songs of Limbo', taken from typescripts in the National Library of Scotland, and a selection of Grassic Gibbon's articles and short fiction, with work done for \u003ci\u003eThe Cornhill Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e along with book reviews and essays on Diffusionism, ancient American civilization and selected studies from his book on the lives of explorers, \u003ci\u003eNine Against the Unknown\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Lewis Grassic Gibbon Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e provides an indispensable supplement to Canongate's edition of \u003ci\u003eA Scots Quair\u003c\/i\u003e , and it also offers further insight into the wide-ranging interests and the lyrical, historical and political writing of the greatest and best-loved Scottish novelist of the early twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Canongate Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018111402224,"sku":"9780862419653","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780862419653_p0.jpg?v=1763817508","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780862419653","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}