Hurricane Jack of the Vital Spark

Hurricane Jack of the Vital Spark
Title Hurricane Jack of the Vital Spark PDF eBook
Author Neil Munro
Publisher
Pages 162
Release 1923
Genre English fiction
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Para Handy Tales — The Vital Spark

Para Handy Tales — The Vital Spark
Title Para Handy Tales — The Vital Spark PDF eBook
Author Neil Munro
Publisher DigiCat
Pages 122
Release 2022-09-15
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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The "Para Handy Tales" is a collection of sea adventure tales written by author Neil Munro. Para Handy is the crafty Gaelic skipper of the Vital Spark, a steamboat of the sort that delivered goods from Glasgow to Loch Fyne, the Hebrides, and the west coast highlands of Scotland in the early 20th century. The stories partly focus on his pride in his ship, "the smertest boat in the tred" which he considers to be of a class with the Clyde steamers, but mainly tell of the "high jinks" the crew get up to on their travels.

Para Handy

Para Handy
Title Para Handy PDF eBook
Author Neil Munro
Publisher Birlinn
Pages 419
Release 2015-07-20
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0857907115

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Para Handy has been sailing his way into the affections of generations of Scots since he first weighed anchor in the pages of the Glasgow Evening News in 1905. The master mariner and his crew - Dougie the mate, Macphail the engineer, Sunny Jim and the Tar - all play their part in evoking the irresistible atmosphere of a bygone age when puffers sailed between West Highland ports and the great city of Glasgow. This definitive edition contains all three collections published in the author's lifetime, as well as those that were unpublished and a new story which was discovered in 2001. Extensive notes accompany each story, providing fascinating insights into colloquialisms, place-names and historical events. This volume also includes a wealth of contemporary photographs, depicting the harbours, steamers and puffers from the age of the Vital Spark.

Literary Afterlife

Literary Afterlife
Title Literary Afterlife PDF eBook
Author Bernard A. Drew
Publisher McFarland
Pages 421
Release 2010-03-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 078645721X

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This is an encyclopedic work, arranged by broad categories and then by original authors, of literary pastiches in which fictional characters have reappeared in new works after the deaths of the authors that created them. It includes book series that have continued under a deceased writer's real or pen name, undisguised offshoots issued under the new writer's name, posthumous collaborations in which a deceased author's unfinished manuscript is completed by another writer, unauthorized pastiches, and "biographies" of literary characters. The authors and works are entered under the following categories: Action and Adventure, Classics (18th Century and Earlier), Classics (19th Century), Classics (20th Century), Crime and Mystery, Espionage, Fantasy and Horror, Humor, Juveniles (19th Century), Juveniles (20th Century), Poets, Pulps, Romances, Science Fiction and Westerns. Each original author entry includes a short biography, a list of original works, and information on the pastiches based on the author's characters.

The English Catalogue of Books

The English Catalogue of Books
Title The English Catalogue of Books PDF eBook
Author Sampson Low
Publisher
Pages 1900
Release 1926
Genre English imprints
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Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

Bibliotheca Scotia

Bibliotheca Scotia
Title Bibliotheca Scotia PDF eBook
Author John Smith & Sons
Publisher
Pages 380
Release 1926
Genre Booksellers' catalogs
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Beyond Scotland

Beyond Scotland
Title Beyond Scotland PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 272
Release 2021-09-20
Genre Social Science
ISBN 900448387X

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Scottish creative writing in the twentieth century was notable for its willingness to explore and absorb the literatures of other times and other nations. From the engagement with Russian literature of Hugh MacDiarmid and Edwin Morgan, through to the interplay with continental literary theory, Scottish writers have proved active participants in a diverse international literary practice. Scottish criticism has, arguably, often been slow in appreciating the full extent of this exchange. Preoccupied with marking out its territory, with identifying an independent and distinctive tradition, Scottish criticism has occasionally blinded itself to the diversity and range of its writers. In stressing the importance of cultural independence, it has tended to overlook the many virtues of interdependence. The essays in this book aim to offer a corrective view. They celebrate the achievement of Scottish writing in the twentieth century by offering a wider basis for appreciation than a narrow idea of 'Scottishness'. Each essay explores an aspect of Scottish writing in an individual foreign perspective; together they provide an enriching account of a national literary practice that has deep, and often surprisingly complex, roots in international culture.