Spartacus

Spartacus focuses and brings to public attention much of James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon's', earliest and most fiercely held beliefs in the nature of society, the freedom of the individual, and the inevitable collapse of 'civilisation.' A successful historian of early civilisation, Mitchell found the perfect artistic impulse in the Spartacist rebellion and from it produced a spare, telling, often violent but always compulsive account.

While there have been sporadic attempts to revive Mitchell's fiction outside A Scots Quair, this is a turning point in making available material which will demonstrate to a generation discovering him the width of his rnage and his ability to write on subjects far from his native Scotland.

A full introduction [by Ian Campbell] offers a description of the man and his work, a brief evaluation of Spartacus as historical fiction and some account of the style. This is the first modern edition, based on the author's own text.

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