The Hubble-Shue

Carstairs, ChristianProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 2.3

Word count: 18K words
Chapters: 2

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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.The Hubble-Shue by Christian CarstairsAuthor: Carstairs, Christian,Language: English, Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature, Release Date: Jan 22, 2011

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Carstairs, Christian Author

Christian Carstairs is an author about whom little public information is currently available; neither nationality nor dates of birth and death are clearly recorded, and only one work by this author is held in the collection, namely The Hubble-Shue. From the available information, this work is the main point of entry for understanding the author, but given the limited materials, it is difficult to sketch a complete picture of his life and writing on that basis. As for the work itself, the title has a distinctly Scots flavor: the word "Hubble-Shue" appears commonly in Scottish literature and usually refers to a noisy, disorderly or tumultuous scene, suggesting that the work may draw on Scottish local life or folk narrative and may lean toward colloquial and scene-based description. Overall, Carstairs remains a rather indistinct writer in the available materials, and the subject matter, style and influence of his work await further evidence; readers should not over-infer his literary standing from a single work.