Scottish Stories (Everyman’s Library Pocket Classics Series)

This book is an Everyman’s Pocket Classic which is an indicator of the quality in every one of their volume presentations. The book is beribboned and in a wonderful size for fitting into one’s hand while reading. Now shall we move to the contents? I had long forgotten (if I ever knew) the wealth of Scottish authors; Walter Scott, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and more than twenty more. The stories were all new to this reader and most intriguing. It was admittedly difficult to stumble over the dialect in some of the stories. The upside was that the reading went slower and more thoughtful, allowing this reader to immerse in the story and characters therein, an unusual bunch. This collection reminds me of my delight in childhood stories such as these; traveling to another world and finding characters that one has not met in real life, from fishmongers to gaoler’s daughters to livestock herders who all work hard and have the pride that goes with it.