This essential collection from Lewis Grassic Gibbon comprises short stories, essays and a novel, The Speak of the Mearns, which was unfinished at the time of the author’s death in 1935. Grassic Gibbon’s fame rests mainly on the trilogy, A Scots Quair, and the short stories, some well known, exhibit the same elements – powerful, dramatic writing and a distinctive local flavour – found in the novels. The Speak of the Mearns is a sharply observed unsentimental portrait of a rural coastal community seen through the eyes of a young boy growing up there. The essays put on record the author’s views on politics and religion.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. Born in Aberdeenshire in 1901, he died at the age of thirty-four. He was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays and science fiction, and his writing reflected his wide interest in religion, archaeology, history, politics and science. The Mearns trilogy, A Scots Quair, is his most renowned work, and has become a landmark in Scottish literature.
Ian Campbell is Professor of Victorian and Scottish Literature at Edinburgh University.
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