Authors:Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Weinstein, Aliso
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: pirate
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2001-04-15
List price: $98.00
ISBN-10: 0748605762
ISBN-13: 9780748605767

The action of The Pirate takes place in Shetland and Orkney in the last years of the seventeenth century. The plot hinges on an illicit relationship and is dominated by obsessed women and dark men twisted by their criminality. The new edition does not change the story, but in its return to the manuscript it recovers the underlying pattern, and exhibits not only Scott’s considerable knowledge of northern history, but his extraordinary grasp of the literature of the north.

Authors:Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott, Claire Lamont,
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: canongate, chronicles
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2001-01-15
List price: $98.00
ISBN-10: 0748605843
ISBN-13: 9780748605842

Chronicles of the Canongate consists of three tragic tales of cultural conflict: "The Highland Widow," "The Two Drovers," and "The Surgeon’s Daughter." The first two are recognised as among the greatest of Scott’s achievements; the last is his almost unknown critique of British imperialism. This is the first time since its appearance in 1827 that the work has been published in the form Scott intended, and the recovery of the original design reveals a deliberate parallelism: set in the third quarter of the eighteenth century all three tales are studies of "racial" misunderstanding.

Author: Walter Scott
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: novels, waverley
Number of Pages: 820
Published: 2008-12-09
List price: $54.75
ISBN-10: 0559765150
ISBN-13: 9780559765155

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTRODUCTION When the author projected this further encroachment on the patience of an indulgent public, he was at some loss for a title; a good name being very nearly of as much consequence in literature as in life. The title of Rob Roy was suggested by the late Mr. Constable, whose sagacity and experience foresaw the germ of popularity which it included. No introduction can be more appropriate to the work than s

Author: Sir Walter Scott
Publisher: Scott Pre
Keywords: vol, antiquary
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $30.45
ISBN-10: 1406752150
ISBN-13: 9781406752151

Author: Walter Scott
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: lake, lady, scott
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 055939652X
ISBN-13: 9780559396526

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE LADY OF THE LAKE CANTO FIRST THE CHASE Harp of the North! that mouldering long hast hung On the witch-elm that shades Saint Fillan’s spring, And down the fitful breeze thy numbers flung, Till envious ivy did around thee cling, Muffling with verdant ringlet every string,— O Minstrel Harp, still must thine accents sleep? Mid rustling leaves and fountains murmuring, Still must t

Author: Scott; Sir Walter
Publisher: Classic Books
Keywords: works, volume, part, redgauntlet
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 2007-08-22
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 074265267X
ISBN-13: 9780742652675

Author: Sir Walter Scott
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: betrothed, novels, waverly
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2007-11-05
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1434497038
ISBN-13: 9781434497031

Sir Walter Scott’s "Waverley Novels" take their name from "Waverley" (1814), the first in the series, because Scott did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827.