Edwin Muir

The Queen's Doctor is a historical non-fiction book that tells the strange story of Johann Friedrich Struensee, a German physician who rose to power as the personal physician of Queen Caroline Matilda of Denmark in the late 18th century. Struensee quickly became the queen's confidant and lover, and eventually seized control of the Danish government, becoming a de facto dictator.The book explores Struensee's rise to power and his controversial reforms, which included abolishing torture and serfdom, and promoting religious tolerance and free speech. However, his radical policies and personal relationships ultimately led to his downfall, as he was eventually arrested, tried, and executed for treason.Author Robert Neumann provides a detailed account of Struensee's life, drawing on historical documents and personal correspondence to paint a vivid picture of the man and his times. The Queen's Doctor is a fascinating look at a little-known chapter in European history, and a compelling portrait of a man who dared to challenge the status quo.This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Born on the Orkney island of Wyre in 1887, Edwin Muir settled in various parts of Europe during the first half of the twentieth century - from Glasgow, to Austria and Czechoslovakia throughout to 1920s, 1930s and again after the war. Muir's poetry bears oblique witness to the most traumatic years and events of this century, and is haunted by the symbolic 'fable' which he longed to find beneath the surface 'story' of mere events, as he came to terms with his own nature amidst the terror and confusion of the European maelstrom. As Seamus Heaney has written: 'Muir's poetic strength revealed itself in being able to co-ordinate the nightmare of history with that place in himself where he had trembled with anticipation . . . His simultaneous at-homeness and abroadness is exemplary.'

Edwin Muir - POOR TOM, J.F. Hendry - FERNIE BRAE, Gordon M. Williams - FROM SCENES LIKE THESE, Tom Gallacher - APPRENTICE.Growing Up in the West presents four very different and memorably vivid accounts of what it was to be young and growing up in Glasgow and the west of Scotland, from the 1930s to the 1960s.Poor Tom tells of a young man's struggle to come to terms with the slow death of his brother in the city slums of a culturally impoverished Scotland. Fernie Brae celebrates the growth and education of a sensitive in a novel reminiscent of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Gordon Williams's novel tells a grimmer story as its young protagonist eventually succumbs to a culture of drink and violence where the harshness of life on the land sits next to industrial sprawl: 'From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs.' Set in the Clydeside shipyards, the wryly observant and humorous style of Apprentice strikes a happier note from the 1960s.