O. Douglas: Priorsford | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9788028337322 | Priorsford | O. Douglas | Taschenbuch | Englisch | Sharp Ink

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Priorsford is one of O. Douglas's most characteristic portraits of small-town Scottish life, shaping its narrative less around sensational incident than around household rhythms, neighbourly obligations, friendship, courtship, memory, and moral choice. Set in a Border burgh recognisably informed by Peebles, the novel combines domestic realism with gentle comedy, lyrical attentiveness to landscape, and a humane, Presbyterian seriousness about ordinary goodness. It belongs to the interwar tradition of women's middlebrow fiction while also revising the Scottish Kailyard inheritance through sharper social observation and emotional restraint. O. Douglas was the pen name of Anna Masterton Buchan (1877-1948), sister of the novelist and statesman John Buchan. Raised in a Free Church manse and long associated with the Borders, she knew intimately the textures of provincial society: its gossip, loyalties, class codes, religious habits, and sustaining rituals. Her fiction often reflects a life shaped by family responsibility, travel, bereavement, and an abiding belief in the civilising power of home. Readers who value subtle characterisation, affectionate irony, and novels in which place becomes a moral presence will find Priorsford deeply rewarding. It is especially recommended to admirers of Scottish social fiction, interwar women writers, and quiet novels whose modest surfaces conceal a finely judged understanding of human conduct.

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9788028337322
ISBN-10:	8028337325
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Douglas, O.
Hersteller:	Sharp Ink
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße:	229 x 152 x 11 mm
Von/Mit:	O. Douglas
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.11.2023
Gewicht:	0,354 kg