Magnus_Merriman

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Magnus Merriman

1934 novel by Eric Linklater

Magnus Merriman is a 1934 comedy novel by the British writer Eric Linklater.[1] It portrays the adventures of an aspiring politician who marries and settles down on Orkney. It had a strong autobiographical element as Linklater had himself unsuccessfully stood in the 1933 East Fife by-election for the National Party of Scotland.[2]

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References

  1. [1]
    Hart pp. 252–253
  2. [2]
    Watson p. 377

Bibliography

  • Hart, Francis Russell. The Scottish Novel: From Smollett to Spark. Harvard University Press, 1978.
  • Watson, Roderick. The Literature of Scotland. Macmillan International Higher Education, 2016.


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