Jimmy Swan

Jimmy Swan, the enigmatic commercial traveler, is another classic comic character from the pen of Neil Munro, the master Scottish humorist. The result of Swan's experiences is a wonderfully entertaining collection, allowing the reader a marvelous insight into daily life in the west of Scotland at the turn of the nineteenth century. Each story is brimful of local and period detail and the editors have provided a full set of notes explaining those historical, cultural, biographical, linguistic, and geographical references that may not be obvious to the twenty-first century reader, but would have been very familiar from the news pages of their daily papers to the early twentieth-century reader. In addition a full introduction is given, setting these Glasgow tales in their context and providing information about their author, Munro.