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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... Elspat and her son , is reticent and makes few self - references : although the ' I ' at 81.33 appears to be Mrs Bethune Baliol , the ' I ' at 120.28 and the ' we ' at 121.7 are clearly Croftangry , leaving it to be supposed that ...
... Elspat and her son , is reticent and makes few self - references : although the ' I ' at 81.33 appears to be Mrs Bethune Baliol , the ' I ' at 120.28 and the ' we ' at 121.7 are clearly Croftangry , leaving it to be supposed that ...
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... Elspat MacTavish's husband had been a Highland warrior and freebooter , a Jacobite who had been killed in a skirmish with Hanoverian soldiers shortly after the decisive defeat of the Jacobites at Culloden in 1746. Elspat was left alone ...
... Elspat MacTavish's husband had been a Highland warrior and freebooter , a Jacobite who had been killed in a skirmish with Hanoverian soldiers shortly after the decisive defeat of the Jacobites at Culloden in 1746. Elspat was left alone ...
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... Elspat's view , the decision has been made for him . The Hanoverian army uses weapons of strength : command , inflexibility , and violence . Its attitude to Hamish's predicament is confrontational : the punishment for desertion is ...
... Elspat's view , the decision has been made for him . The Hanoverian army uses weapons of strength : command , inflexibility , and violence . Its attitude to Hamish's predicament is confrontational : the punishment for desertion is ...
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... Elspat MacTavish . Mr McIntyre's disabling modernity emerges again at the end of the tale . The last paragraph speculates on the cause of Elspat's death : some people thought she had been carried away by an evil spirit , others that she ...
... Elspat MacTavish . Mr McIntyre's disabling modernity emerges again at the end of the tale . The last paragraph speculates on the cause of Elspat's death : some people thought she had been carried away by an evil spirit , others that she ...
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... Elspat's history reluctantly from him . What can Mrs Bethune Baliol do ? She offers sympathy and money , both of which are ignored . The other thing she can do is remember the story , which she gives to Chrystal Croftangry . Mrs Bethune ...
... Elspat's history reluctantly from him . What can Mrs Bethune Baliol do ? She offers sympathy and money , both of which are ignored . The other thing she can do is remember the story , which she gives to Chrystal Croftangry . Mrs Bethune ...
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