The Masked Fisherman and Other Stories

The Masked Fisherman and Other Stories
Title The Masked Fisherman and Other Stories PDF eBook
Author George Mackay Brown
Publisher John Murray
Pages 185
Release 2014-02-06
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1848549369

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An incident from the Viking period in the Northern Isles of Scotland inspired the story from which this collection takes its name. The stories range from the first century, to the 1920s - when the author was a child - to one which ends a hundred years from now.

The Young Fisherman, and Other Stories ... With Eight Illustrations by W. H. Thwaites, Etc

The Young Fisherman, and Other Stories ... With Eight Illustrations by W. H. Thwaites, Etc
Title The Young Fisherman, and Other Stories ... With Eight Illustrations by W. H. Thwaites, Etc PDF eBook
Author George William MacArthur Reynolds
Publisher
Pages 150
Release 1863
Genre
ISBN

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The Fisherman

The Fisherman
Title The Fisherman PDF eBook
Author John Langan
Publisher Canelo
Pages 382
Release 2023-10-09
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1804366536

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‘Illusory, frightening, and deeply moving, The Fisherman is a modern horror epic. And it’s simply a must read’ Paul Tremblay In upstate New York, within the woods, Dutchman’s Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked and fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other’s company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumours of the Creek and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss them. Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir. It's a tale of dark pacts, of long-buried secrets, and of a mysterious figure known as the Fisherman. It will bring Abe and Dan face to face with all that they have lost, and with the price they must pay to regain it. ‘An epic, yet intimate, horror novel. Langan channels M. R. James, Robert E. Howard and Norman Maclean. What you get is A River Runs Through It... straight to hell’ Laird Barron More praise for The Fisherman ‘Reading this, your mouth fills with worms. Just let them wriggle and crawl as they will, though—don’t swallow. John Langan is fishing for your sleep, for your soul. I fear he’s already got mine’ Stephen Graham Jones ‘What starts as a slow, melancholy tale gains momentum and drops you head first into a churning nightmare from which you might escape, but you’ll never forget, and the memory of what you saw will change you forever’ Richard Kadrey ‘The Fisherman is a treasure, the kind of book you just want to snuggle up and shiver through. I can’t say enough good things about the confidence, the patience, the satisfying cumulative power of this book. It was a pleasure to read from the first page to the last’ Victor LaValle ‘Stories within stories, folk tales becoming modern legends, all spinning into a fisherman’s tale about the one he wishes had gotten away. Langan’s latest is at turns epic and personal, dense yet compulsively readable, frightening but endearing’ Adam Cesare

George MacKay Brown

George MacKay Brown
Title George MacKay Brown PDF eBook
Author Ron Ferguson
Publisher Saint Andrew Press
Pages 238
Release 2014-08-05
Genre Religion
ISBN 0861537270

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George Mackay Brown is one of the 20th century's finest writers. This biography sweeps us along on an enriching literary and spiritual journey..Draws on unpublished letters, conversations with the enigmatic Bard's friends and well-known writers. Shortlisted for the Saltire Award Best Research Book of the Year.

The Bibliography of Regional Fiction in Britain and Ireland, 1800–2000

The Bibliography of Regional Fiction in Britain and Ireland, 1800–2000
Title The Bibliography of Regional Fiction in Britain and Ireland, 1800–2000 PDF eBook
Author Keith D. M. Snell
Publisher Routledge
Pages 642
Release 2017-03-02
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1351894013

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Pioneering and interdisciplinary in nature, this bibliography constitutes a comprehensive list of regional fiction for every county of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England over the past two centuries. In addition, other regions of a usually topographical or urban nature have been used, such as Birmingham and the Black Country; London; The Fens; the Brecklands; the Highlands; the Hebrides; or the Welsh border. Each entry lists the author, title, and date of first publication. The geographical coverage is encompassing and complete, from the Channel Islands to the Shetlands. An original introduction discusses such matters as definition, bibliographical method, popular readerships, trends in output, and the scholarly literature on regional fiction.

The Island of the Women and Other Stories

The Island of the Women and Other Stories
Title The Island of the Women and Other Stories PDF eBook
Author George Mackay Brown
Publisher John Murray
Pages 263
Release 2014-03-27
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1848549466

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In these six stories George Mackay Brown leads us back along the sweep of Orkney's past and beyond even that to the remoteness of fable. He reveals the timelessness of the lived moment and the constants of island life in the harvest of sea and land and the compulsions of voyage and homecoming.

George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination

George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination
Title George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination PDF eBook
Author Linden Bicket
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 208
Release 2020-03-31
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1474411665

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This lively new study is the very first book to offer an absorbing history of the uncharted territory that is Scottish Catholic fiction. For Scottish Catholic writers of the twentieth century, faith was the key influence on both their artistic process and creative vision. By focusing on one of the best known of Scotland's literary converts, George Mackay Brown, this book explores both the Scottish Catholic modernist movement of the twentieth century and the particularities of Brown's writing which have been routinely overlooked by previous studies. The book provides sustained and illuminating close readings of key texts in Brown's corpus and includes detailed comparisons between Brown's writing and an established canon of Catholic writers, including Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and Flannery O'Connor.This timely book reveals that Brown's Catholic imagination extended far beyond the 'small green world' of Orkney and ultimately embraced a universal human experience.