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Alasdair Gray's remarkable retelling of Dante's Divine Comedy; this edition brings Gray's Hell, Purgatory and Paradise together into a single edition for the first time

A fantastical comedy from the irreplaceable Alasdair Gray

From the genius of Scottish letters, a satire of religion, the media and London

In questo ultimo capitolo del viaggio di Dante, il protagonista è guidato da Beatrice nel Paradiso, in contrasto con le precedenti lotte dell'Inferno e del Purgatorio, vivendo esperienze di conforto e amore divino. La narrazione esplora temi di redenzione, spiritualità e la ricerca della verità, mentre Dante incontra anime beate e riflette sulla natura della grazia e della felicità eterna. Attraverso simbolismi e allegorie, l'opera invita il lettore a considerare il significato della vita e la relazione tra l'umano e il divino. La struttura del Paradiso, con i suoi cieli concentrici, rappresenta l'armonia dell'universo e la gerarchia divina, culminando in una visione beatifica di Dio. L'opera si distingue per la sua profondità filosofica e la bellezza poetica, rendendola un capolavoro della letteratura mondiale.

An authoritative collection of Alasdair Gray's stories gathered over the last twenty five years.

Old Men in Love, like The Arabian Nights, is about a storyteller whose stories contain other stories. As in Alasdair Gray's Lanark, 1982 Janine, Poor Things, and The Book of Prefaces, this one has many styles of narrative and location. Periclean Athens, Renaissance Florence, Victorian Somerset mingle with Britain under the New Labour Party, viewed from the West End of Glasgow. More than 50% is fact and the rest possible, but must be read to be believed.

This pamphlet is for anyone alarmed by the present British government. It argues that the component nations of the United Kingdom can become true democracies only by declaring themselves republics. The authors are Alasdair Gray, writer of fiction and pamphlets such as Why Scots Should Rule Scotland, and Adam Tomkins, Professor of Public Law in the University of Glasgow and author of Public Law and Our Republican Constitution. Both are committed republicans.

'Grandly conceived, gorgeously realised, and sparklingly alert to the making not just of works of art, but of a language, this crammed compendium, so copiously yet lightly learned, so drolly self-reflexive, yet enticingly accessible, so exhilaratingly, quixotically magniloquent, is the last word in forewords.' Herald

Die Menschen des 23. Jahrhunderts haben materielle wie psychische Not und Ausbeutung abgeschafft. Freilich ist ist dieses System umfassend praktizierter Ökologie und Weisheit weder ganz unproblematisch noch ungefährdet.

Describing etiquette, government, irrigation, education, clogs, kites, rumour, poetry, justice, massage, town-planning, sex and ventriloquism in an obsolete nation. Alasdair Gray was born in 1934. He obtained a diploma in Design and Mural Painting in 1957 and has since earned his living in Glasgow, mostly by painting and writing. Much of his fiction is published in Penguin, including 1982 Janine, Poor Things, Ten Tales Tall & True and Unlikely Stories, Mostly, from which Five Letters from an Eastern Empire is taken.

Each selection of stories is preceded by a detailed portrait, drawn by Gray, above a reproduction of the writer's signature. The collection ends, as do so many of Gray's books, with a chapter detailing how the book got written. Postscript is a detailed memoir of Gray and Kelman, among others, attending Philip Hobsbaum's writing group in the 70s and their friendship with Agnes Owens. Gray had agreed to produce another collection of short stories, but didn't have enough written to fill a book on his own. So he used his position to help friends that he thoughts deserved the boost of publication by a major London-based publishing house. His decision has since been vindicated and the collection is seen as an early display of three talents that would be of great importance to the boom in Scottish writing in the late-80s/early-90s. Owens has since had several well-received novels published and Kelman has won the Booker prize.

Set in Glasgow of the 1880s, a story of the love life of two doctors, and a mature woman created by one of them.

Duncan Thaw, the narrator, has to cope with a loveless family and the drudgery of growing to maturity in Glasgow. Elsewhere the author moves Thaw into fantasy when he sends him to Unthank, a city he is condemned to after his death. From the author of "Something Leather".

The loves and lives of June, Senga and Donalda are told in this book which covers the period 1963 to 1990. Also featured are unhappy children, a liberal headmistress, a tobacconist's family, a commercial traveller, a lighthouse keeper and a pimp. From the author of "Lanark".

The unforgettable, challenging and experimental second novel from the author of Lanark. Introduced by Will Self schovat popis

The first short story collection from the irreplaceable Alasdair Gray, sublimely decorated throughout