A Scots Quair (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: James Leslie Mitchell
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Work: Social and domestic chronicle
- Time of Work: From a few years before World War I through the Great Depression
- Setting: Northeastern Scotland
- Principal Characters: Chris Guthrie, John Guthrie, Jeanne Guthrie, Will Guthrie, Ewan Tavendale, Charles (Chae) Strahan, Robert Duncan (Long Rob of the Mill), Young Ewan Tavendale, Robert Colquohoun, Ake Ogilvie, Ma Cleghorn, Ellen Johns
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Self-discovery, Sex or sexuality, Nature, Religion, Depression, economic, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, Farms, farmers, or farming, World War I, Scotland or Scottish people
- Locales: Scotland
The Novels
Sunset Song, the first novel in the trilogy A Scots Quair, is certainly the best known and perhaps the most finely crafted of the three books. The reader becomes acquainted with Chris Guthrie as a young girl growing up on a small farm near Kinraddie. At an early age, she is a Chris divided (as Scotland is being divided): an English Chris and a Scottish Chris; a Chris who loves books and learning and culture and a Chris who loves the land and the sky and the roll of the seasons. This ongoing personal and social struggle is at the soul of all three...
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