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Around the World in 30 Classics AROUND THE WORLD IN 30 CLASSICS ... 1) Let’s take a trip to .... SCOTLAND with Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s novel Sunset Song. Few people outside of Scotland have read this wonderful novel, but in a 2005 poll conducted in Scotland, the Scots voted it their favourite book of all time! It was published in 1932 and was written by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (whose real name was James Leslie Mitchell). It forms part of a trilogy called A Scot’s Quair (with the other two novels being Cloud Howe and Grey Granite). It would be hard to find a novel more quintessentially Scottish than this one. It is written in Scot’s dialect, which does make it a challenge to read, but the prose is more like poetry and I think it is one of the most beautifully written novels I have ever read. It is generally considered to be the most important Scottish novel of the 20thC. Sunset Song tells the story of Chris Guthrie who grows up on a farm called Kinraddie in the Mearns district of north-east Scotland. She is intelligent and does well at school, and has ambitions to train as a teacher; but family tragedy intervenes and she has to stay home and look after her father. She falls in love with, and marries, a Highland farmer named Ewan Tavendale, and bears a son, but World War I intrudes on her happiness and the life of the farmers in the Mearns is irrevocably changed by the war. The novel is about Scottish national identity, but is also a lyrical hymn to the beauty, and hardship, of the landscape. It is a book about the pull of home and all that it means, and yet it depicts the intellectual deprivation of a tiny farming community and the need for a wider world. The natural descriptions are truly wonderful. The novel shocked many readers when it was first published, with its frankness about sex and childbirth and its feminist issues. Today there is a Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre in the Mearns district. The novel was made into a TV series by BBC Scotland in 1971. This is a great Scottish novel – read it and you will find yourself transported to Scotland, rejoicing in the beauty of its countryside, experiencing another age, and you will revel in the beauty of the prose. “So that was Chris and her reading and schooling, two Chrisses there were that fought for her heart and tormented her. You hated the land and the coarse speak of the folk and learning was brave and fine one day; and the next you'd waken with the peewits crying across the hills, deep and deep, crying in the heart of you and the smell of the earth in your face, almost you'd cry for that, the beauty of it and the sweetness of the Scottish land and skies.” Susannah Fullerton © 2016 https://susannahfullerton.com.au 1 2) Let’s take a trip to ... Canada with L.M. Montgomery’s novel Anne of Green Gables It is Canada’s most famous novel and it draws millions of tourists to Prince Edward Island where it was set. It was published in 1908 and was Lucy Maud Montgomery’s first published novel. It rapidly gained ‘classic’ status and has never been out of print. Anne is a spirited red-head who arrives on the island to be adopted by an elderly brother and sister, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. She is imaginative, intensely attuned to the beauty of the natural world around her, and passionate in her loves and hates. In this first novel of the series she dyes her hair green by mistake, has to make an intriguing assortment of apologies, eats ice cream for the first time, and feuds with Gilbert Blythe. Yet her determination to find happiness in spite of a traumatic childhood, her energy and zest for life, make her a wonderful role model for young readers. However, Anne of Green Gables is not just a novel for children, but an extremely satisfying read for adults too. These days there are some excellent critical books about its themes and issues, and there is a great biography of LMM by Mary Henley Rubio. It is also a wonderfully Canadian novel – its pages teach the reader a considerable amount about Canadian history, about education in small Canadian towns at the start of the 20thC, and about the position of women. The spirit of Canadian independence pervades the book with characters wanting to differentiate themselves from their American neighbours, and the island’s Scottish heritage (surnames, Presbyterianism, literature etc) also enriches the novel. The descriptions of Prince Edward Island make you vividly see the landscape. I finally visited PEI a few years ago, and it all felt so familiar and beloved because of reading the ‘Anne’ books. The Haunted Wood, the Lake of Shining Waters, Lovers Lane and the other places so beautifully depicted in the pages of the book are still there to be enjoyed today. Even if you cannot go yourself to PEI, you can certainly pay it a visit via this book. This novel has been taking me on journeys since I was 7 years old – I still travel within its pages and adore it every time. “It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul.” Susannah Fullerton © 2016 https://susannahfullerton.com.au 2 3) Let’s take a trip to ... England with Jane Austen’s novel Emma How appropriate that Jane Austen will soon feature on an English bank-note, for no writer is more English and yet also more universal. I think that Emma is not only England’s greatest novel, but is the finest novel in the world! Emma was published in December 1815 and is regarded by most critics as Jane Austen’s greatest work. It concerns the fortunes of Emma Woodhouse, “handsome, clever and rich”, who has a propensity for matchmaking and who has a lot to learn about herself and other people. The novel is set in the town of Highbury in Surrey and Jane Austen peoples the place so believably with a parson, apothecary, schoolteacher, farmers and lawyers. Nearby is the Woodhouse home of Hartfield, Mr Knightley’s historic home of Donwell Abbey, and the Weston’s more modest home of Randalls. The reader is given such a complete picture of this section of English society. We see the class system and its snobbery, the inter- dependence of the various characters (Mr Knightley gives poor Miss Bates all his apples), the rising of the middle classes (with Mr and Mrs Coles, who can now give grand dinner parties), the violence of those who live on the edge of society (the gypsies and the theft of poultry), and the influence of London not too far away. We can so vividly see the streets of Highbury with the shops, the stray dogs, the children and the passers-by. Jane Austen celebrates Englishness in her novel – Mr Knightley is named George like the King, he is the ideal landlord and an ideal gentleman, especially in contrast to the duplicitous Frank Churchill. This is a novel which discusses what it means to be English. There are many reasons to read Emma and it is a novel which demands re-reading to be fully appreciated. Let Emma take you back to early 19thC England, and also teach you about human nature, yourself, and the power of literature. “It was a sweet view—sweet to the eye and the mind. English verdure, English culture, English comfort, seen under a sun bright, without being oppressive.” Susannah Fullerton © 2016 https://susannahfullerton.com.au 3 4) Let’s take a trip to ... Hungary with Kate Seredy’s novel The Good Master Kate Seredy wrote her novel in English and it was published in 1935, but she based it on her own childhood holidays in Hungary when she travelled with her father who was researching Hungarian peasant life. The story concerns cousin Kate from Budapest who comes to stay with her uncle Marton, his wife and son Jancsi in the countryside. Uncle Marton is the ‘good master’ of the title and he has much to teach Kate who is wild, undisciplined and unhappy. Motherless Kate has been badly spoiled by her father, and she is sent to the country to learn control and respect for others. The Good Master contrasts the unsatisfying life of the city with all that the Hungarian countryside has to offer. Kate and Jancsi ride horses across the plains, visit country fairs, hear old legends by the fireside, care for the animals and make their food. They celebrate festivals such as Easter and Christmas with traditional Hungarian customs. In the process of doing this, Kate learns much and when her father comes to collect her at the end of the book he hardly recognises his own daughter. By connecting with family and learning of her own heritage – its myths and stories, its landscapes and people – Kate comes to know her real self and forms a deep love for the Hungarian country life of her uncle and his family. The Good Master is a children’s classic and has been voted one of the Top 100 books for children of the 20thC. It was illustrated by Kate Seredy who was an illustrator before she turned to writing as well.
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