Description
The achingly beautiful Scottish novel now adapted as an acclaimed feature film directed by Terence Davies (The House of Mirth, The Deep Blue Sea) Young Chris Guthrie lives a brutal life in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, torn between her passion for the land, duty to her family and her love of books. When her mother, broken by repeated childbirths, takes her own life and poisons her two youngest children, Chris is left with her father to run the farm on her own. Soon she is alone, and for the first time can choose how to spend her life. But as the First World War begins, everything changes, and the young men leave Scotland for battle. The first in Gibbon's classic trilogy A Scot's Quair, Sunset Song is infused with local vernacular, and innovatively blends Scots and English in an intense description of Scottish life in the early twentieth century. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
| EAN: | 9780141188409 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 30.08.2007 |
| Autoren: | Gibbon, Lewis Grassic |
| Abbildungen: | Illustrations, maps |
| Themenüberschrift: | DRAMA / General |
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| Fachschema: | Englische Belletristik / Dramatik, Drehbuch~Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Dramatik |
| Fachkategorie: | Drama, Theaterstücke, Drehbücher~Klassische Lyrik und Dichtung vor dem 20. Jahrhundert~Klassische Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch |
| Imprint-Titels: | Penguin Classics |
| Länge: | 199 mm |
| Breite: | 131 mm |