The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories

Author: Dunn, Douglas (Professor of English and Scottish Literature, University of St Andrews)

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 9 October 2008 by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Oxford Books of Prose & Verse' series.

From tales of the supernatural to pungent social realism, and from the humorous to the disturbing, whether rural or urban, this anthology shows the vitality of the Scottish short story.

Douglas Dunn's eclectic selection displays the marvellous range of Scottish story-telling, beginning with three early traditional tales, and including a wealth of writers from the last three centuries: amongst them Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, J. M. Barrie, Violet Jacob, Neil Gunn, Eric Linklater, Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, and younger talents such as Ronald Frame, Janice Galloway, and A. L. Kennedy.