刘易斯•格拉西克•吉本（1901—1935），真名詹姆斯•莱斯利•米奇尔，生于英国苏格兰东北部海岸富饶的农耕区。短暂从事新闻工作后，他于1919年加入皇家陆军后勤部队，先后派驻波斯、印度和埃及，后在英国皇家空军担任六年文职。这位高产作家创作了大量小说、短篇及散文，三十四岁英年早逝前已出版十七部完整著作。他以外祖母的姓氏为笔名创作苏格兰题材作品，代表作为《苏格兰人的书》三部曲（《落日之歌》《云雾山谷》《灰色的花岗岩》。

Chris Guthrie, torn between her love of the land and her desire to escape the narrow horizons of a peasant culture, is the thread that links these three works. In them, Gibbons interweaves the personal joys and sorrows of Chris's life with the greater historical and political events of the time.

Chris Guthrie, torn between her love of the land and her desire to escape the narrow horizons of a peasant culture, is the thread that links these three works. In them, Gibbons interweaves the personal joys and sorrows of Chris's life with the greater historical and political events of the time.

刘易斯•格拉西克•吉本（1901—1935），真名詹姆斯•莱斯利•米奇尔，生于英国苏格兰东北部海岸富饶的农耕区。短暂从事新闻工作后，他于1919年加入皇家陆军后勤部队，先后派驻波斯、印度和埃及，后在英国皇家空军担任六年文职。这位高产作家创作了大量小说、短篇及散文，三十四岁英年早逝前已出版十七部完整著作。他以外祖母的姓氏为笔名创作苏格兰题材作品，代表作为《苏格兰人的书》三部曲（《落日之歌》《云雾山谷》《灰色的花岗岩》。

A Scots Quair is a trilogy of novels: Sunset Song (1932), Cloud Howe (1933), and Grey Granite (1934). Together, they trace the life of heroine Chris Guthrie as she grows from a child into adulthood through the early twentieth century.

A Scots Quair is a trilogy of novels: Sunset Song (1932), Cloud Howe (1933), and Grey Granite (1934). Together, they trace the life of heroine Chris Guthrie as she grows from a child into adulthood through the early twentieth century.

Who formed the first modern nation? Who created the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. Mention of Scotland and the Scots usually conjures up images of kilts, bagpipes, Scotch whisky, and golf. But as historian and author Arthur Herman demonstrates, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland earned ...(展开全部)

Who formed the first modern nation? Who created the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. Mention of Scotland and the Scots usually conjures up images of kilts, bagpipes, Scotch whisky, and golf. But as historian and author Arthur Herman demonstrates, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland earned ...(展开全部)

An expert historian on Mary, Queen of Scots draws on hundreds of her encrypted letters to paint a vivid portrait of one of history’s most compelling figures. For almost two decades before her execution at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was a prisoner. From her chambers, she wrote countless letters, many encrypted using complex ciphers to prevent her communica...(展开全部)

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