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The golden bird : two Orkney stories by George Mackay Brown is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The golden bird : two Orkney stories about?
These two long stories are set, like most of George Mackay Brown's work, in Orkney and in a period, the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when the pattern of island life, little changed since Viking times, was beginning to be threatened.<br><br>The Golden Bird tells the story of the slow decline of an island community: a scattered village dependant on the sea for its livelihood and at risk from it, a place subject to the peculiar tensions of isolation and the unsettling influence of new va
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- George Mackay Brown
- Publisher
- Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781846975080
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (5 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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