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Set in Glasgow from 1963 to 1990, this experimental novel details the lives of 4 women and other assorted characters. ... Read more

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This text presents the books of "Jonah", "Micah" and "Nahum". The book of "Jonah" shows the people of Nineveh being forgiven, yet this overturns usual biblical narrative such as "Micah" and "Nahum" where Israel's enemies are expected to get their come-uppance. ... Read more

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An examination of the artistic achievements of Scottish post-modernist Alasdair Gray, artist, poet, playwright, publisher and author of "Lanark". Concentrating principally on his fiction, the text relates his major writings to his work as a visual artist. ... Read more

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This extraordinary work is at one and the same time an account of a personal spiritual crisis and a hilarious spoof on academic learning, early Victorian values and materialism. In 'Sartor Resartus' ('the tailor re-patched') a fictitious editor retails the theories of an equally fictitious German professor who has come to the conclusion that human institutions and morals are only clothes to shield us from nothingness, clothes that can be changed as the whims of the age or fashion dictate. This radically deconstructive vision reveals the very highest symbols of belief for what they are - merely symbols. How to believe in anything after such an insight is a question even more acute today than it was in Carlyle's time, when he first asked it in this masterpiece of invention, parody and profound laughter. ... Read more

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Altruism first and foremost
An almost unclassifiable work, Sartor Resartus is at once inaccessible and irresitable.Repeated readings always bring new illumination and unearth previously hidden lessons.Carlyle wrote this book to instruct, entertainand, most importantly, to challenge.Its message appears more timely nowthan ever.Sic vos non vobis! ... Read more