A Short Survey of Classic Scottish Writing -- Lanark 1982: an unofficial Alasdair Gray website

Published as number 7 in the newly created series Canongate Pocket Classics. Originally the volume was only available as part of a box set including the first six classics (set price £12.99). This box set consisted of works by Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark and James Kelman. The book is almost an appendix to The Book of Prefaces, giving the reader a historical trip through Scotland's rich literary past and concentrating upon the links between politics and social conditions and the literary works produced. He stops before having to deal with his own era, for fear of accusations of writing about his friends and favourites.

	Lanark 1982 an unofficial Alasdair Gray website A Short Survey of Classic Scottish Writing (2001)

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