Poor Things

by Alasdair Gray

does life mainly evolve through small gradual changes, or through big catastrophic ones?

Our nurses are now the truest practitioners of the healing art.

“Marry me, Bella!” I cried. “Don’t change the subject Candle,

The imagination is, like the appendix, inherited from a primitive epoch when it aided the survival of our species, but in modern scientific industrial nations it is mainly a source of disease.

You, at least, should have faith in me because in the eyes of God you are my lawful wedded wife!” “God will let me leave you whenever I choose,” I said,