Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights is a complete set of stories first published in the early thirties that reveals a complex and many-sided author whose interests lie far beyond the Scottish and rural.
In a far Persian dawn we follow the quest of a sorcerer for Life’s lost continent; hunt down the last Neanderthal man; watch a strange drama being played out in the Garden of Eden, and read how a bishop inverted a famous text to save his own soul.
Grassic Gibbon, or James Leslie Mitchell as he was known, saw military service in the East and was fascinated by the exotic and the fantastic: many of the themes in the stories are echoes of his larger concerns with the history of society and religion.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. Born in Aberdeenshire in 1901, he died at the age of thirty-four. He was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays and science fiction, and his writing reflected his wide interest in religion, archaeology, history, politics and science. The Mearns trilogy, A Scots Quair, is his most renowned work, and has become a landmark in Scottish literature. His novel Sunset Song, one of the Scot’s Quair trilogy, was voted number one in the List/Orange Best Scottish Books of All Time.
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