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Scottish Life and Character in Anecdote and Story (Classic Reprint)

Scottish Life and Character in Anecdote and Story (Classic Reprint)

by William Harvey
Hardback
Publication Date: 02/05/2018

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Excerpt from Scottish Life and Character in Anecdote and Story Scotland is proverbial -for its wit and humour, and the writer who seeks to illustrate Scottish character with stories drawn from the everyday life of the people is not likely to lament a lack of apposite material. Since Dean Ramsay issued his evergreen and unexcelled Remini scences many volumes on the subject have been published, but these, for the most part, are indiscriminate collections of jokes which, while they bear witness to the truth that Scotland is a land of humour, do little or nothing to illustrate native character. The present writer aims at supplementing the work of the genial Dean of Edinburgh rather than at following the col lectors of concocted witticisms. His endeavour is to illustrate the main features of our Scottish life, and he gives the anecdotes exactly as he found them - without comment or observation - leaving them to speak for themselves. The shrewdness, the wit, and the humour of the nation are treated in the volume which, the author hopes, will form a not-altogether valueless contribution to the literature of anecdote and story that pertains to the Land 0' Cakes, and will afford pleasure as well to the Scot at home as to the Scot abroad.

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ISBN:
9780484021036
9780484021036
Category:
Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
02-05-2018
Publisher:
Forgotten Books
Pages:
546
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x30mm
Weight:
0.88kg

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