Scottish Stories

A beautiful hardcover Pocket Classics collection of stories by great Scottish writers from the past two centuries ranging from Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to Muriel Spark, Ali Smith, Irvine Welsh, and Leila Aboulela, and many more.

Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from an entrancingly literary land. Scotland is known for its centuries of colorful Celtic folklore and its long tradition of spine-tingling ghost stories, as well as for fiction that revels in the gorgeous landscapes of the Highlands and the Western Isles and the rich histories of Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.

GERARD CARRUTHERS is a professor of Scottish literature at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and the editor of the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets Scottish Poems and Robert Burns.
 

Preface by Gerard Carruthers

Walter Scott (1771–1832), “The Two Drovers”
John Galt (1739–1839), “The Gudewife”
James Hogg (1770–1835), “The Cameronian Preacher’s Tale”
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94), “Thrawn Janet”
Margaret Oliphant (1828–97), “The Open Door”
John Buchan (1875–1940), “The Outgoing of the Tide”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) , “J. Habakuk Jephson’s Statement”
Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901–35), “Smeddum”
Eric Linklater (1899–1974), “Sealskin Trousers”
Muriel Spark (1918–2006), “The Portobello Road”
Dorothy K. Haynes (1918–87), “Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch …”
George Mackay Brown (1921–96), “The Drowned Rose”
Iain Crichton Smith (1928–98), “Murdo”
Alasdair Gray (1934–2019), “The Crank that Made the Revolution”
William McIlvanney (1936–2015), “At the Bar”
James Kelman (b. 1946), “Greyhound for Breakfast”
Bernard MacLaverty (b. 1942), “Walking the Dog”
Janice Galloway (b. 1955), “Blood”
Irvine Welsh (b. 1958), “The Granton Star Cause”
Jackie Kay (b. 1961). “My Daughter the Fox”
James Robertson (b. 1958), “Old Mortality”
A. L. Kennedy (b. 1965), “Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains”
Leila Aboulela (b. 1964). “The Museum”
Ali Smith (b. 1962), “Fidelio and Bess”
Andrew O'Hagan (b. 1968), “Keepsakes”