Chronicles of the CanongatePenguin, 2003 - 427 páginas Ranging from the wilds of the Scottish Highlands to the dusty streets of Madras, these three stories all show lives transformed - and, in some cases, destroyed - by words and cultures in conflict. In 'The Highland widow', a mother is devastated when her son announces his intention to join the British army to fight in America, and uses all her cunning to keep him at home. 'The two drovers' is a tale of prophecy fulfilled in which the Englishman Harry Wakefield is set against his Scottish friend Robin Oig in a destructive and ultimately tragic quarrel. 'The surgeon's daughter' follows the fortunes of three young Scots who attempt to settle in India during the early years of British Empire. Based on the authoritative Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, which follows the text of the Scott collection in its original form, this volume features a new introduction by Clare Lamont. It also includes a chronology of Scott's life and works, textual and historical notes and a glossary. |
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... British Academy have been particularly generous in their support of the costs of editorial prep- aration . The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels has been most fortunate in having as its principal financial sponsor the Bank of ...
... British Academy have been particularly generous in their support of the costs of editorial prep- aration . The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels has been most fortunate in having as its principal financial sponsor the Bank of ...
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... British in India : " If you want rogues , as they are so much in fashion with you , you have that gallant caste of adventurers , who laid down their consciences at the Cape of Good Hope as they went out to India , and forgot to take ...
... British in India : " If you want rogues , as they are so much in fashion with you , you have that gallant caste of adventurers , who laid down their consciences at the Cape of Good Hope as they went out to India , and forgot to take ...
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... British territorial expansion in India , which had seen Bengal come under British rule following Robert Clive's victory at Plassey in 1757. In south India , however , the East India Company's activities had met with resistance from the ...
... British territorial expansion in India , which had seen Bengal come under British rule following Robert Clive's victory at Plassey in 1757. In south India , however , the East India Company's activities had met with resistance from the ...
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Sir Walter Scott Claire Lamont. to the British . This , were it to succeed , would be conquest by betrayal , not by fighting of the sort worthy to be recorded in ' the annals of the world ' ( 155 ) . What saves Menie and unravels the ...
Sir Walter Scott Claire Lamont. to the British . This , were it to succeed , would be conquest by betrayal , not by fighting of the sort worthy to be recorded in ' the annals of the world ' ( 155 ) . What saves Menie and unravels the ...
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... British , " " You have brought to me ... words of peace , while your masters meditated a treacherous war ... Hitherto I have been in the Carnatic as a mild prince - in future I will be a destroying tempest ! " The narrator continues ...
... British , " " You have brought to me ... words of peace , while your masters meditated a treacherous war ... Hitherto I have been in the Carnatic as a mild prince - in future I will be a destroying tempest ! " The narrator continues ...
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