The Grampian Quartet

by Shepherd, Nan; Watson, Roderick

• ISBN13: 9780862415891
• ISBN10: 0862415896
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-03-01
• Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd

Summary

These titles make up the first omnibus edition of Nan Shepherd's prose works, and they round out a portrait of a novelist whose sensitivity and powers of observation raise her work tar above the status of regional literature and into the front rank of Scottish writing.

Table of Contents

Introduction	iii
1. Aunt Josephine Leggat	1	(5)
2. Crannochie	6	(7)
3. Family Affairs	13	(9)
4. In Which a Latin Version Is Spoilt	22	(20)
5. Luke Comes in	42	(8)
6. Expansion of the World	50	(8)
7. Sudnry Weathers	58	(8)
8. Leggat Respectability	66	(6)
9. Beatrice among the Pots	72	(12)
10. Dussie Enters on an Affair of Moment	84	(6)
11. The Lustre Frock	90	(5)
12. Torchlight	95	(16)
13. Crux of a Spiritual Adventure	111	(13)
14. Trouble for Aunt Josephine	124	(18)
15. Roy Rory Foubister	142	(21)
16. The Ironside Brand	163	(20)
17. Martha Flies in a Rage	183	(14)
18. Death of Aunt Josephine	197	(11)
19. The Pillars of Hercules	208	(3)
Glossary	211