The Silver Skull
Although S. R. Crockett's longest love affair was with his Scottish birth-parish of Galloway, he liked to mock himself by quoting Satan's reply to the Lord when asked from whence he came: 'From going to and fro in the earth and, from walking up and down in it' (Book of Job). He travelled the world searching for 'local colour' for his novels set, for example, in Spain and France. The Silver Skull is set in the 'boot of the heel' of Italy in the second decade of the nineteenth century and he sought to acquire many books about the relevant historical and political background before returning to the land that he had visited in his youth. His sere…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84921-087-4
- EAN: 9781849210874
- Produktnummer: 11997954
- Verlag: Kennedy & Boyd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.2 cm 339 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 339
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Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1859 - 1914), who published under the name S. R. Crockett, was a Scottish novelist. After some years of travel, he became, in 1886, minister of Penicuik. During that year he produced his first publication, Dulce Cor (Latin: Sweet Heart), a collection of verse under the pseudonym Ford Brereton. He eventually abandoned the Free Church ministry for full-time novel-writing in 1895. The success of J. M. Barrie and the Kailyard school of sentimental, homey writing had already created a demand for stories in Lowland Scots, when Crockett published his successful story of The Stickit Minister in 1893. It was followed by a rapidly produced series of popular novels frequently featuring the history of Scotland or his native Galloway. Crockett made considerable sums of money from his writing and was a friend and correspondent of R. L. Stevenson.
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