hay john macdougall (8 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Good condition paperback with light wear, age tone. Contents are clean with minor age tone.

Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good+. Reprint. Very Good Canongate 1983 reprint paperback with uncreased spine, very bumped to head. Some very light bumping to upper corners. Internally, no writing or stamps. Clean, bright pages. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 460 pages.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. Shelf worn - Fast Despatch Soft Covers - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Thus. First published in 1914, this is a reissue with new introduction of 1979. Some edge wear and creasing to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some slight yellowing to white parts of jacket, corners slightly bruised. price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy of quite a scarce book. 450pp. A leech, a pirate, a predator, an anti Christ, a public benefactor and the fisherman's friend, such is Gillespie Strang in this remarkably powerful Scottish novel. Gillespie is the harsh prophet of the new breed of Scottish entrepreneur, prepared to use any means to achieve his insatiable ambition amongst the nineteenth century fishing communities of the west coast. John MacDougall Hay (1881-1919), was born and raised in Tarbert, Loch Fyne, on which he based the setting for 'Gillespie'. A Church of Scotland minister, his knowledge of such communities and his sombre vision of good and evil shape this, his finest novel. Sadly, Hay died of tuberculosis aged only 38.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - John MacDougall Hay (1881-1919) was born and brought up in Tarbert, Loch Fyne, where his father was a steamship agent. He went to the University of Glasgow in 1898 where he was a prize-winning scholar and made his first ventures into journalism while still a student.After graduating in 1901 with an Arts degree, he trained as a teacher and worked at schools in Stornway and Ullapool. A serious bout of rheumatic fever weakened his health and led him to give up school-teaching as a career. In 1905 he returned to Glasgow to train as a minister of the Church of Scotland, once again supporting himself as a freelance journalist. When his divinity studies were completed in 1908, he became minister of Elderslie near Paisley. He married Catherine Campbell, who was herself a minister's daughter and their son (the Gaelic poet George Campbell Hay) was born in 1915.MacDougall Hay continued to write, working in the evenings and revising his first novel Gillespie no fewer than three times over a number of years before it was finally published in 1914. This dark and powerful novel was very successful - praised by Thomas Hardy and enthusiastically reviewed in America - and he was tempted to leave the Church, but in the end he chose to remain in the ministry. A second novel, Barnacles was published in 1916, and a volume of poems, Their Dead Sons, appeared two years later. A third novel, set in the modern Church of Scotland and to be called The Martyr, was in the planning stages when he died of tuberculosis in December 1919, at the age of only 38.