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Beyond This Limit: Selected Shorter Fiction
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| Naomi Mitchison. Edited and with an Introduction by Isobel Murray |
| ISBN 9781904999850 |
| SERIES The Naomi Mitchison Library |
| Paperback 228 pages |
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| Published 25 September 2008
UK Price £13.95
US Price $19.95 |
Naomi Mitchison published her first novel, The Conquered, in 1923.
In her more than seventy succeeding books she produced an extraordinary out-put, especially in the novel and the short story.
This selection of the shorter fiction is intended to illustrate her range and achievement over more than fifty years.
Beyond This Limit was the result of a unique co-operative partnership with illustrator Wyndham Lewis, and story and pictures are here reproduced from the limited edition of 1935.
The other contents range from a story of the cave painters of Lascaux, through Mitchison's major fictional preoccupations, ancient Greece, Scotland, Africa, to a story of post-holocaust Scotland first published in 1982.
Central to all of them is a very individual intelligence constantly examining the politics of power in human relationships, including sexual ones.
Edited with an Introduction by Isobel Murray, Emeritus Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Naomi Mitchison [1897-1999] was a literary phenomenon.
Tireless in her writing, unafraid and often highly unconventional in her opinions, she left an extraordinary legacy. Her novels for adults and children - based on the classical ancient world, and on the immediately contemporary - stressed at different times her deep interest in Scottish and African societies, as well her concerns for the future.
She also wrote poetry and plays, memoirs, a war diary, book reviews, political articles, and many letters.
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