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• PoetryThe BrusJohn Barbour · 1375An excommunicated and defeated king vanishes for an entire winter, then reappears with an army.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryThe Testament of CresseidRobert Henryson · 1500An abandoned woman rails against the gods, and the gods come down to answer her.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryLament for the MakarisWilliam Dunbar · 1508A sick poet lists the fellow poets whom death has taken, and the same Latin line returns in every stanza.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryEneadosGavin Douglas · 1513Virgil rendered into Scots, with thirteen prologues in which the translator speaks of winter, of May and of his rivals.Literature
• PoetryFingal, an Ancient Epic PoemJames Macpherson (Ossian) · 1761A Gaelic epic that all of Europe read and whose authenticity was disputed from the moment it appeared.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryThe Jolly BeggarsRobert Burns · 1799Beggars drink together and each takes a turn to speak and tell what their life is made of.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelIvanhoeWalter Scott · 1819A knight returned from the Crusade to an England where Saxons and Normans do not speak to one another.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified SinnerJames Hogg · 1824A boy raised in the certainty that he cannot sin meets someone who encourages him to do so.Literature
• TalePopular Tales of the West HighlandsJ. F. Campbell · 1860Tales from the Highlands taken down in Gaelic, with the name, age and occupation of each storyteller.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelMiss MarjoribanksMargaret Oliphant · 1866A provincial young woman sets about organising the society of her town, and devotes ten years to it.Literature
• NovelStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeRobert Louis Stevenson · 1886A lawyer is worried by a friend's will and keeps watch in order to catch sight of a stranger.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Hound of the BaskervillesArthur Conan Doyle · 1902A legendary beast on a moor, and an heir who must come to take possession.LiteraturePublic domain
• TheatrePeter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow UpJ. M. Barrie · 1904A boy who refuses to grow up comes to fetch a girl from London so that she will tell stories to his band.Literature
• NovelThe Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame · 1908Four riverside animals keep house, and one of them discovers the motor car.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryA Drunk Man Looks at the ThistleHugh MacDiarmid · 1926A drunk man fallen at the roadside addresses a thistle for two thousand lines.Literature
• NovelThe Corn King and the Spring QueenNaomi Mitchison · 1931A king and a queen whose rites make the wheat grow leave their kingdom and discover other ways of believing.Literature
• NovelSunset SongLewis Grassic Gibbon · 1932A girl torn between books and the land inherits a farm, and the war comes.Literature
• NovelHighland RiverNeil Gunn · 1937Kenn walks back up the river of his childhood, and his life travels back up with it.Literature
• PoetryDàin do Eimhir agus Dàin EileSorley MacLean · 1943Love poems written in the midst of war by a man who reproaches himself for not having gone.Literature
• NovelThe Prime of Miss Jean BrodieMuriel Spark · 1961A schoolmistress takes six little girls under her wing and sets out to make them in her own image.Literature
• CinemaBill Douglas TrilogyBill Douglas · 1972Three films for a single childhood: a mining village, poverty, and a boy's successive placements.Cinema
• PoetryFrom Glasgow to SaturnEdwin Morgan · 1973Monologues from Glasgow, spaceships and letters that move across the page, all in one book.Literature
• CinemaGregory's GirlBill Forsyth · 1980A schoolboy loses his place in the team to a girl, with whom he immediately falls in love.Cinema
• NovelLanark: A Life in Four BooksAlasdair Gray · 1981A boy from Glasgow who draws, and an amnesiac traveller in a city where daylight never comes.Literature
• NovelTrainspottingIrvine Welsh · 1993A gang from Edinburgh lives on heroin and makeshift schemes, and tells its own story, chapter after chapter.Literature
• NovelHow Late It Was, How LateJames Kelman · 1994A man leaves police custody without his sight, and no one tells him why.Literature
• CinemaOrphansPeter Mullan · 1998Four siblings keep vigil over their mother on the night before the funeral, and each spends it elsewhere.Cinema
• CinemaRatcatcherLynne Ramsay · 1999A summer of refuse collectors' strike, a boy who said nothing, and a new house in the middle of fields.Cinema

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