The Thirteenth Disciple

James Leslie Mitchell

Paul Harris Publishing

1981

287 páginas

9h 34m

ISBN-10: 0862280087

The Thirteenth Disciple was first published in 1931 by James Leslie Mitchell, the man who was to make his pseudonym of Lewis Grassic Gibbon famous for the Scots Quair trilogy. In this thinly autobiographical novel, the hero Malcolm Maudslay spends his childhood in the north-east of Scotland in a countryside that will be very familiar to admirers of the televised first part of the Scots Quair, Sunset Song. After that early idyll Maudslay faces disenchantment and a broken love affair in Glasgow before fighting for lost causes in the First World War. The novel ends with a symbolic search for the Lost City, an archetypal journey through darkness to light.