The Well at the World's End is a tour de force which plays with images and ideas in the search for philosophical truth. As Peter searches for his lost youth, he enters a realm of illusion and superstition peopled by Highlanders, each of whom unknowingly teaches him about life and about himself.
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'Modern Scottish fiction reaches its highest peak in the novels of Neil M. Gunn ... he transcends regionalism and acquires universality.' - The Scotsman
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Neil M. Gunn was born in Dunbeath, Caithness, in 1891, the seventh of nine children. Gunn left home to live with his sister and her family, was educated privately and passed Civil Service exams in 1907. Throughout the 1920s he published short stories and his first novel, The Grey Coast. He wrote many other books, including The Silver Darlings (1941) and his autobiography, The Atom of Delight (1956). He died in 1973.
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