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The House with the Green Shutters

by George Douglas Brown

First published
1901
Pages
250
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  1. Chapter 01

    11:48

  2. Chapter 02

    7:45

  3. Chapter 03

    10:17

  4. Chapter 04

    21:12

  5. Chapter 05

    28:30

  6. Chapter 06

    8:24

  7. Chapter 07

    9:06

  8. Chapter 08

    13:55

  9. Chapter 09

    12:07

  10. Chapter 10

    21:07

  11. Chapter 11

    22:11

  12. Chapter 12

    29:23

  13. Chapter 13

    28:51

  14. Chapter 14

    17:43

  15. Chapter 15

    20:39

  16. Chapter 16

    15:48

  17. Chapter 17

    20:36

  18. Chapter 18

    19:15

  19. Chapter 19

    9:57

  20. Chapter 21

    13:38

  21. Chapter 20

    29:17

  22. Chapter 22

    16:24

  23. Chapter 23

    32:49

  24. Chapter 24

    25:50

  25. Chapter 25

    41:59

  26. Chapter 26

    26:49

  27. Chapter 27

    30:05

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In the fictional Ayrshire town of Barbie, the proud and hard-tongued carrier John Gourlay lords it over his neighbours from behind the green-shuttered house that announces his standing. When the shrewd merchant James Wilson returns after years away and the railway reaches the town, Gourlay's grip on local trade slips, and he pins his hopes on a weak, dreaming son who cannot carry them. What follows is a slow collapse driven by pride, spite, and the gossip of idle townsfolk. Written as a deliberate rebuke to the cosy, sentimental kailyard fiction of its day, Brown's only novel gives a harsh, unsparing portrait of Scottish village life. Its bleak realism and cruel wit made it a landmark, later claimed as a forerunner of the Scottish literary revival.

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George Douglas Brown

George Douglas Brown (1869–1902) was a Scottish novelist born in Ochiltree, Ayrshire, the illegitimate son of a farmer and an Irish farm servant. He studied at the University of Glasgow and at Balliol College, Oxford, then worked as a journalist and hack writer in London.

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First published
1901
Reading time
About 7 hours
Pages
250
Language
English
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