Annals of the Five Senses and Other Stories, Sketches and Plays

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781857542721
• ISBN10: 185754272X
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface and Acknowledgements	ix
Alan Riach
Introduction	xv
Roderick Watson
ANNALS OF THE FIVE SENSES (1923)
Cerebral	5	(10)
A Moment in Eternity	15	(5)
Cafe Scene	20	(8)
The Fool	28	(1)
A Four Years' Harvest	28	(32)
The Following Day	60	(2)
Sartoria	62	(6)
Spanish Girl	68	(3)
The Never-Yet-Explored	71	(15)
Consummation	86	(1)
A Limelight from a Solitary Wing	86	(5)
A Last Song	91	(205)
PUBLISHED STORIES AND SKETCHES
The Black Monkey (1909)	95	(4)
All Night in an British Opium `Joint' (1912)	99	(2)
Casualties (1919)	101	(3)
Nisbet, an Interlude in Post War Glasgow (1922)	104	(9)
Following Rebecca West in Edinburgh (1922)	113	(5)
In the Fulness of Time (1923)	118	(3)
Some Day (1923)	121	(6)
The Purple Patch (1924)	127	(9)
Old Miss Beattie (1927)	136	(4)
The Common Riding (1927)	140	(5)
Murtholm Hill (1927)	145	(9)
The Waterside (1927)	154	(3)
A'body's Lassie (1927)	157	(5)
The Moon Through Glass (1927)	162	(3)
Maria (1927)	165	(2)
The Visitor (1927)	167	(3)
Andy (1927)	170	(4)
Holie for Nags (1928)	174	(2)
The Scab (1932)	176	(3)
The Last Great Burns Discovery (1934)	179	(3)
Five Bits of Miller (1934)	182	(2)
Wound-Pie (1934)	184	(3)
The Stranger (1934)	187	(3)
The Dean of the Thistle (1935)	190	(3)
A Sense of Humour (1935)	193	(2)
A Scottish Saint (1936)	195	(6)
Aince There, Aye There: A Shetland Story (1936)	201	(3)
Old Eric's Hobby (1938)	204	(4)
The Case of Alice Carruthers (1939)	208	(4)
Vouchsafed, A Sign (1946)	212	(1)
Sticky-Wullie (1952)	213	(2)
Without a Leg to Stand On: A Shetland Sketch (1960)	215	(5)
An Epoch-Making Event (posthumously published, 1984)	220	(3)
APPENDIX 1 Hitherto Unpublished or Uncollected Stories, Sketches and Fragments
The Lion of Edinburgh	223	(4)
The Loch Ness Mystery	227	(3)
On Being Sold a Pup	230	(2)
In the Gaelic Islands	232	(2)
The Darkie Baby	234	(3)
Enemy's Daughter	237	(5)
The Jackknife	242	(2)
A Land of Fruits	244	(2)
Here's How: A Glasgow Story	246	(3)
The Man with the Hole in His Sock	249	(3)
Nothing Like Flannel	252	(2)
Wells	254	(1)
In the Middle of the Field	255	(3)
The Affair at Hawick	258	(7)
A Friend of the Family	265	(1)
Poor Pussy	266	(1)
Putting the Lid On It	267	(4)
At Sixes and Sevens	271	(6)
The Frontier	277	(3)
Standing by the Pool	280	(1)
The First Clock in Barra	281	(3)
The Murder	284	(1)
Ballet: Barley Break (The Scarecrow)	285	(1)
Lechois: A Play in One Act	286	(10)
APPENDIX 2 Provenances and Notes	296