''The Monarch of the Glen'' is a Scottish comic farce novel written by English-born Scottish author

Compton Mackenzie Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, (17 January 1883 – 30 November 1972) was a Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist. He was one of th ...

and published in 1941. The first in Mackenzie's ''Highland Novels'' series, it depicts the life in the fictional Scottish castle of Glenbogle. The television programme '' Monarch of the Glen'' is very loosely based on the series.

References

* Linklater, Andro ''Compton Mackenzie: A Life'' The Hogarth Press (1992, London) 1941 British novels Chatto & Windus books Novels by Compton Mackenzie Novels set in Highland (council area) Novels about nobility {{Europe-novel-stub