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STAINED RADIANCE (first published in 1930) was the first novel by James Leslie Mitchell (better known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon). It charts the intertwined lives of a group of men and women struggling to live in London in the wake of the First World War and the General Strike of 1926, one of them a clear forerunner of Chris Guthrie in Gibbon’s later classic trilogy, A SCOTS QUAIR. It is remarkably in advance of the many political novels which appeared in the decade to follow, not only in its twin satires on both mainstream politics and nascent British communism, but also in its forthright exploration of the sexual politics of the period. The text is Here : supported for the first time by a scholarly introduction, explanatory notes and commentary.