Timeline
Lifetime:
1869 -
1932
Passed: ≈
92 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
George Douglas Brown
Books by George Douglas Brown
House with the Green Shutters
Fiction
Drama
Novel
Tragedy
Pride
Realism
Tragedy
Village
Social Class
Isolation
Conflict
Naturalism
Rural Life
social commentary
Scotland
Community
Gossip
Envy
Moral Decay
Ayrshire
Taciturn
Scottish Renaissance
The House with the Green Shutters is a powerful and bleak novel set in the fictional Scottish village of Barbie, based on the author's hometown of Ochiltree. The story follows John Gourlay, a proud and taciturn carrier, as he struggles against the pe...