The Hoose o Haivers by Susan Rennie
Loosely based on the Metamorphoses poems of Ovid, The House o Haivers retells some of the best-known, as well as some less familiar, Greek and Roman myths. Using varieties of accessible modern Scots, these writers bring alive a range of tales including: - Midas, whose touch turned everything to gold. - Echo and Narcissus and how love turned one into a disembodied voice and the other into a flower. - How Arachne took on the goddess Athena in a weaving contest and what happened to her when she won. The adventures of the mighty heroes Perseus and Hercules and the stories of the Minotaur amoungst others. The collection begins in the Hoose o Haivers, a place where stories both true and false begin and grow - a place based on Ovid's fantastic description of the House of Rumour.
Susan Rennie is a writer, researcher and lexicographer. She was Editor of the Dictionary of the Scots Language and the Historical Thesaurus of Scots projects at the Universities of Dundee and Glasgow. She has worked on The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and Chambers Dictionary and is the chief editor of the Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary. Susan has written several books in Scots for children, including The GFG: The Guid Freendly Giant (The BFG in Scots) and The Derk Isle, the first Scots translation of Tintin.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781902927442 |
| ISBN 10 | 1902927443 |
| Title | The Hoose o Haivers |
| Author | Susan Rennie |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bonnier Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2002-08-05 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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