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Kirsteen - Oliphant - Paperback
Much of Margaret Oliphant's fiction examines the position of women and the injustice and sterility of denying women outlets of fulfillment, most notably in 'Kirsteen', one of her last and greatest novels.
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Kirsteen - Oliphant - Hardback
Much of Margaret Oliphant's fiction examines the position of women and the injustice and sterility of denying women outlets of fulfillment, most notably in 'Kirsteen', one of her last and greatest novels.
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The Master Of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson - Hardback
This volume tells the strange tale of the Durie brothers, whose differences symbolise the conflicting calls of romance and reason in 18th-century Scotland.
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Whisky Galore - Sir Compton Mackenzie - Book with sound disc
It is 1943, and the war has brought rationing to the Hebridean Islands. It looks like the end of the world when the whisky is about to run out, and the locals are about to despair when a ship with a cargo of whisky is wrecked.
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Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson - Hardback
Originally designed as a story for boys, but with great appeal for adult readers, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by Long John Silver.
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The House With The Green Shutters - George Douglas Brown - Paperback
This novel lays bare the seductive and crippling presence of patriarchal authority in Scottish culture at large, symbolised by the terrible struggle between old John Gourlay and his weak but imaginative son.
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The Private Memoirs And Confessions Of A Justified Sinner - James Hogg - Paperback
Set in early 18th century Scotland, this novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. Could this stranger be a figment of the imagination, or the devil himself?
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The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson - Book with sound disc
This dark psychological fantasy is more than a moral tale. It is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution and criminality and the secret lives behind Victorian propriety, to create a unique form of urban Gothic.
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Sick Heart River - John Buchan - Paperback
Given a year to live, lawyer and MP Sir Edward Leithen fears he will die unfulfilled and disillusioned. He resolves to devote his last energies to finding and restoring to health a young Canadian banker. This is John Buchan's last novel.
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The Cottagers Of Glenburnie: And Other Educational Writings - Elizabeth Hamilton - Hardback
'The Cottagers of Glenburnie' presents vivid depictions - and biting satires - of Scottish peasant life. It also skillfully discusses and dissects class issues, British imperialism, and war.