The House with the Green Shutters
Author(s): George Douglas Brown
Genre(s): General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Satire
Narrators: Lennich
Number of Chapters: 27
Length: 09 hours and 05 minutes
Language: English
The House with the Green Shutters is a novel by the Scottish writer George Douglas Brown, first published in 1901 by John MacQueen. Set in mid-19th century Ayrshire, in the fictitious town of Barbie which is based on his native Ochiltree, it consciously violates the conventions of the sentimental kailyard school, and is sometimes quoted as an influence on the Scottish Renaissance.
The novel describes the struggles of a proud and taciturn carrier, John Gourlay, against the spiteful comments and petty machinations of the envious and idle villagers of Barbie (the "bodies"). (Introduction by Wikipedia)
*additional PL by Linette Geisel