Literature in Scotland and Scotland Guide - Sights and Tours


sherlockian.net/
Includes information on the life and work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Victorian era, actors who have portrayed Holmes, and the stories themselves. A variety of resources which provide information on all aspects of the fictional detective character.
  
slainte.org.uk/scotwrit/scwrhome.htm
Entries include Ian Rankin, John Buchan, William McIlvanney, and Irvine Welsh. Features profiles, video interviews, and writers' advice and recommendations. News and features on contemporary and past Scottish authors and their works.
  
slainte.org.uk/scotauth/scauhome.htm
M. Barrie, Robert Burns, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Alistair MacLean, Sir Walter Scott, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Biographical information on prominent Scottish writers including J.
  
rhizomatics.demon.co.uk/muir/
Born in Orkney in 1887, Prague in 1946, Edwin Muir's wide and varied career is reflected in a brief chronology, detailing his appointment as the Director of British Council, and Rome in 1949 and Rome in 1949, as well as his literary career as an academic, novelist, and po
  
inform.umd.edu/EdRes/ReadingRoom/Fiction/Scott/Ivanhoe/
Full text of the novel Ivanhoe by Scottish author Sir Walter Scott (1820-1878), who's work reflects the cultural changes of the 18th century.
  
inform.umd.edu/EdRes/ReadingRoom/Fiction/Buchan/
Full text of The 39 Steps by Scottish novelist John Buchan (1875-1940).
  
bibliomania.com/0/5/182
A collection of novels by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Stark Munro Letters, A Study in Scarlet, The Lost World, The Poison Belt, including Captain of the Polestar and Tales of Terror and M
  
scots-online.org/
Provides a comprehensive guide to the history and linguistic characteristics involved when learning, speaking, or translating the Scots language. Contains texts including work by R L Stevenson and Robert Burns, a dictionary, and information on organisatio
  
inform.umd.edu/EdRes/ReadingRoom/Fiction/Stevenson/Kidnapped/
Full text of the famous novel Kidnapped by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894).
  
www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS/
Society which aims to promote the study, teaching, and writing of Scottish literature, and to further the study of the languages of Scotland. Describes regular publications of the society including the journals ScotLit, Scottish Studies Reviews, Scottish
  
sub.uni-goettingen.de/ssgfi/aac-lit/
Major subject headings include English language and literature, new literatures in English, American language and literature, and Celtic language and literature. An index to scholarly information in Anglo-American literature and language.
  
robertburns.org/works/
Offers the full text of over 100 of Burns' poems and songs, Highland Mary, including Address of Beelzebub, Charlie He's My Darling, My Nannie and Mary, My Nannie, O, and The Bonnie Wee Thing.
  
bibliomania.com/0/0/46/frameset.html
Full text of novels written in the Victorian era by Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), The Dynamiter, including Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and and Prince Otto.
  
users.globalnet.co.uk/~crumey/scot.html
Biographies of novelists, poets, and dramatists who were born or lived in Scotland from the 10th century to the present day, including Robert Henryson, James I, George Buchanan, Ron Butlin, Robert Crawford, Janice Galloway, John Napier, and Adam Smith. Co
  
siracd.com/
Explores the life and works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, information on the origins of the Sherlock Holmes character, with a database of quotes and a listing of the author's fictional creations.
  
Number of reviews is 15 - Laws in Scotland