Spartacus" is a fascinating account of the life of Spartacus by James Leslie Mitchell. Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator and slave leader who famously escaped during Third Servile War, which constituted a pivotal slave uprising against the Roman Republic. Contents include: "Insurrection", "The Gathering of the Slaves", "The Gladiators", "The War Begins", "South to Lucania", "Legio Libera", "War in the Mountains", "The Pits of Death", "Rex Servorum", "The Conqueror", "Winter in Nola", "Crixus in Apulia", "Torment", "Rome!", "the Defiles of Mutina", etc. James Leslie Mitchell (1901 - 1935), also known under the pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, was a Scottish writer. Other notable works by this author include: "Hanno: or the Future of Exploration" (1928), "Stained Radiance: A Fictionist's Prelude" (1930), and "The Thirteenth Disciple" (1931). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
This essential collection from Lewis Grassic Gibbon comprises short stories, essays and a novel, The Speak of the Mearns, which was unfinished at the time of the author's death in 1935. Grassic Gibbon's fame rests mainly on the trilogy, A Scots Quair, and the short stories, some well known, exhibit the same elements—powerful, dramatic writing and a distinctive local flavor—found in the novels. The Speak of the Mearns is a sharply observed unsentimental portrait of a rural coastal community seen through the eyes of a young boy growing up there. The essays put on record the author's views on politics and religion.
Three survivors from an airship crash find themselves washed up on an apparently deserted beach. Moving inland they can scarcely believe their situation: they've travelled 25,000 years back in time to the lost continent of Atlantis.
Sunset Song is the first and most celebrated of Grassic Gibbon's great trilogy, A Scot's Quair. It provides a powerful description of the first two decades of the century through the evocation of change and the lyrical intensity of its prose. It is hard to find any other Scottish novel of the last century which has received wider acclaim and better epitomises the feelings of a nation.
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