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Gaelic Scotland
This book, originally published in 1988, examines the Highlands and Islands of Scotland over several centuries and charts their cultural transformation from a separate region into one where the processes of anglicisation have largely succeeded. It analyses the many aspects of change including the policies of successive governments, the decline of the Gaelic language, the depressing of much of the population into peasantry and the clearances.
The Doctor’s World
This is the story of the extraordinary life of Claver Morris and the society in which he lived. After his marriage at Chelsea in 1685, Claver Morris moved to Somerset where he established an outstanding reputation for his work as a physician. His diaries show us how he worked with apothecaries and surgeons, and travelled widely to treat all kind of patients, from the children of the poor to those of the landed gentry. The diaries also tell us about the joys and pains of Claver’s personal and family life, and of his various intrigues. Claver Morris was a man of many talents: immensely enterprising, knowledgeable, sociable and loving. His house was always filled with music, guests and entert...
McGlue
Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue è tenuto sotto chiave nella stiva di una nave, ancora troppo ubriaco per essere sicuro del proprio nome, della situazione e del proprio orientamento: potrebbe aver ucciso il suo migliore amico. La memoria intollerabile di ciò che è accaduto si accompagna ai suoi sprazzi di sobrietà. Ottessa Moshfegh veleggia spavalda nella grande tradizione letteraria americana e ci regala un furfante perfido e senza cuore in un viaggio affilato come un coltello attraverso le nebbie dei ricordi. Lo straordinario esordio di Ottessa Moshfegh. “Si legge come lo zampillo sfrontato che fuoriesce da una gola tagliata: immediato, viscerale, audace, spietato, violento e grottescamente bello...” Los Angeles Review of Books
