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That Vital Spark
Neil Munro
其他書名
A Neil Munro Anthology
出版Birlinn, 2002
主題Fiction / Short Stories (single author)Literary Collections / GeneralLiterary Collections / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN18415820429781841582047
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8lyaAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Neil Munro's reputation fluctuated wildly: an immensely successful novelist in the early years of the twentieth century, he was attacked in the 1920s by Hugh MacDiarmid for not addressing contemporary Highland issues. At his death in 1930 he was commonly referred to as the heir to Scott and Stevenson, but by the 1980s the novels which built that reputation were out of print and one incomplete edition of his Para Handy stories was all that remained available. Lacking a comprehensive anthology, readers have been unable to judge his work as a whole and have missed much of real delight and merit. That Vital Spark meets this need and presents a rich and varied selection of some of the best of Munro's light fiction, literary short stories, journalism, criticism, descriptive writing and poetry. Also included are two very early short stories in the thriller genre and the opening chapters of his unfinished last novel, The Search. His work as novelist, poet, journalist and critic can for the first time be properly assessed. More than seventy per cent of the material in this collection is not otherwise available and over half of that seventy per cent has never been presented in book form at a