Cloud Howe Esprios Classics by Lewis Grassic Gibbon Paperback Book 9781034149002

Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell 19011935 a Scottish writer Born in Auchterless and raised in Arbuthnott in the former county of Kincardineshire Mitchell started working as a journalist for the Aberdeen Journal in 1917 and later for the Farmers Weekly after moving to Glasgow Gibbon grew up in Stonehaven and attended Mackie Academy Around that time he was active with the British Socialist Party He was best known for his trilogy A Scots Quair set in the northeast of Scotland in early years of the 20th century The trilogy consists of three novels Sunset Song 1932 Cloud Howe 1933 and Grey Granite 1934 A Scots Quair with its combination of streamofconsciousness lyrical use of dialect and social realism is considered to be among the defining works of the 20th century Scottish Renaissance