Erchie & Jimmy Swan

by Neil Munro

The Erchie collection contains 52 new stories as well as 29 previously published, while Jimmy Swan includes seven new stories in addition to the original 30 stories.

532 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1972

About the author

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Neil Munro was a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author and literary critic. He was born in Inveraray and worked as a journalist on various newspapers.

He was basically a serious writer, but is now mainly known for his humorous short stories, originally written under the pen name of Hugh Foulis. (It seems that he was not making a serious attempt to disguise his identity, but wanted to keep his serious and humorous writings separate.) The best known were about the fictional Clyde puffer the Vital Spark and her captain Para Handy, but they also included stories about the waiter and kirk beadle Erchie MacPherson, and the travelling drapery salesman Jimmy Swan.

Reviews

[Mónica Cordero Thomson · Rating 3 out of 5]

No es un libro que me haya gustado especialmente, pero he aprendido mucho sobre las Exposiciones de Glasgow y de la historia escocesa de principios de siglo XX.