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Bog-Myrtle and Peat by S. R. Crockett, Fiction, Literary, Action & Adventure
Contributor(s): Crockett, S. R. (Author), Crockett, Samuel Rutherford (Author)

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 ISBN: 160312909X     ISBN-13: 9781603129091
Publisher: Aegypan
OUR PRICE: $26.96  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2007
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Annotation: S.R. Crockett wrote some twenty-odd novels that centered in and around the Scottish country that he loved. He wrote about that land so clearly, so beautifully, and so well that at moments it almost seems alive to us as we read his telling of it. In "Bog-Myrtle and Peat," Crockett gives us a series of vignettes. In "Minister of Dour," he writes of a minister tending to the people of the plague, making them comfortable, making sure that they have the things they need to survive and burying the dead. He does all this without a care for his own well-being. In "The Story of Seven Dead Men," six men play a little joke on a little boy. They had found a dead man in the ocean and told the boy that the man was only sleeping -- a joke the little boy never quite understood because the joke was ultimately played on the six fishermen. There are several more stories within these pages, all fascinating and entertaining.
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Action & Adventure
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.36 lbs) 328 pages
 
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Contributor Bio(s): Crockett, S. R.: - "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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