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Lewis Grassic Gibbon has 38 books on Goodreads with ratings. Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s most popular book is Sunset Song (A Scots Quair, #1).

The Collected Works of Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Scots Quair (Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, Grey Granite) & Three Go Back. Error rating book.4/5. Sunset Song is a novel by the Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon.

It is widely regarded as one of the most important Scottish novels of the 20th century. It is the first part of a trilogy A Scots Quair, and was made into a television series in by BBC Scotland/5(). Sixteen books written by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (), regarded as the most important Scottish prose writer of the early 20th century.

All were published in the last seven years of his life, mostly under his real name, James Leslie Mitchell. Language flowing through thoughtful Chris, Lewis Grassic Gibbon writes a brilliant flow of compassion for the troubled world between world wars.

Ignorance stopped change in to a new world of optimism/5(). Lewis Grassic Gibbon (–35) is the celebrated pen-name of James Leslie Mitchell. Born and brought up in the rich farming land of North East Scotland, he was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and essays and had seventeen full-length books published before his untimely death at the age of thirty-three.4/5(11).

The Grassic Gibbon Centre. The Official Website for the Scottish Author Lewis Grassic Gibbon. The Grassic Gibbon Centre celebrates the life, work and times of James Leslie Mitchell, the novelist of the Mearns, better known by his pen name Lewis Grassic Gibbon.

The first edition of the novel was published inand was written by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this classics, fiction story are Chris Guthrie.

The book has been awarded with, and many others/5. At each book's core is the heroine Chris Guthrie, as she grows from a child into adulthood through the Great War to the development of communism in the s.

Grassic Gibbon's writing is unique and riveting, blending Scots and English in an accessible style, and eloquent in its humanity and celebration of nature.

James Leslie Mitchell is of course the real name behind Lewis Grassic Gibbon, and as this was voted Scotland’s favourite novel a couple of years ago, so it has become the choice of our next meeting of the local book group/5(). Looking for books by Lewis Grassic Gibbon.

See all books authored by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, including Sunset Song, and A Scots Quair, and more on   Discover Book Depository's huge selection of Lewis Grassic Gibbon books online. Free delivery worldwide on over 20 million titles. Lewis Grassic Gibbon is the more distinctly Scottish alter-ego of James Leslie Mitchell, and although there are many interesting books written under.

Edited and introduced by Tom Crawford. 'It would be impossible to overestimate Lewis Grassic Gibbon's importance A Scots Quair is a landmark work; it permeates the Scottish literary consciousness and colours all subsequent writing of its kind.'.

Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. Born in Aberdeenshire inhe 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 : Pegasus Books.

Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel Sunset Song has been voted Scotland’s favourite novel, beating titles including JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter story to the top spot. Lewis Grassic Gibbon (13t Februar - 7t Februar ), born James Leslie Mitchell wis a Scots owthor.

Born an brocht up in Aiberdeenshire, he stairtit wirkin as a jurnalist fur the Aberdeen Journal an the Scottish Farmer at the age o In he listit wi the Ryal Air Force, wirkin as a clerk an spendin some time in the Middle he quat the RAF an stairtit.

Grassic Gibbon Centre & Cafe. likes. The Grassic Gibbon Centre & cafe sits in the Mearns countryside, the spiritual home of Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Next to the centre is a large ers: 1K.

Further reading. Scott Lyall (ed.), The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, ASLS, ) ISBN Scott Lyall, 'J.

Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Exploration', in Scottish Literary ReviewSpring/Summerpp. –; Scott Lyall, '"East is West and West is East": Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Lewis Grassic Gibbon (–35) is the celebrated pen-name of James Leslie Mitchell.

Born and brought up in the rich farming land of North East Scotland, he was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and essays and had seventeen full-length books published before his untimely death at the age of thirty-three/5(13). Lewis Grassic Gibbon lived from 13 February to 7 February Born James Leslie Mitchell, he was a Scottish writer whose book Sunset Song, is widely regarded to have been one of the best Scottish books of the 20th Century.

The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.Lewis Grassic Gibbon () is widely regarded as the most important Scottish novelist of the early 20th century. This reputation stems largely from the series of three books that are collectively known as 'A Scots Quair'.

In that trilogy, Grassic Gibbon produced a classic of not just Scottish literature but of world literature. Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel of love, war and rural life laid out the tensions between the old and the new Scotland. Sunset Song tells a beautiful, though often heartbreaking, story.

Set in the north-east of Scotland around the outbreak of the First World War, Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s novel is unsparing in its harsh realism.