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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... Hartley and Richard Middlemas . Both young men love Menie ; she prefers Richard and is secretly engaged to him . Richard is the illegitimate son of a Jacobite father and a Jewish mother , whose family had abandoned him at birth except ...
... Hartley and Richard Middlemas . Both young men love Menie ; she prefers Richard and is secretly engaged to him . Richard is the illegitimate son of a Jacobite father and a Jewish mother , whose family had abandoned him at birth except ...
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... Hartley , also goes to India , as a doctor . In due course Menie , now fatherless , accepts Richard's invi- tation to join him . The tale is set just after the first phase of British territorial expansion in India , which had seen ...
... Hartley , also goes to India , as a doctor . In due course Menie , now fatherless , accepts Richard's invi- tation to join him . The tale is set just after the first phase of British territorial expansion in India , which had seen ...
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... Hartley's success in enlisting the help of Hyder Ali . To achieve it he journeys up the mountain pass to Mysore , a journey like Edward Waverley's to the Highlands in Chapter 16 of Waverley in that it takes him to a different society ...
... Hartley's success in enlisting the help of Hyder Ali . To achieve it he journeys up the mountain pass to Mysore , a journey like Edward Waverley's to the Highlands in Chapter 16 of Waverley in that it takes him to a different society ...
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... Hartley is , is undermined by a remark of his colleague , Mr Esdale : " " we are all upon the adventure in India , more or less " ( 253 ) . A similar ambivalence is present in a passage towards the end of the tale . Hyder Ali declares ...
... Hartley is , is undermined by a remark of his colleague , Mr Esdale : " " we are all upon the adventure in India , more or less " ( 253 ) . A similar ambivalence is present in a passage towards the end of the tale . Hyder Ali declares ...
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... Hartley before he goes to India ( 223.22–24 ; 262.8 , 13 ) . A similar oversight leads the narrator to forget that Witherington is a Catholic ( 164.8 ; 240.16-17 ) . No attempt has been made to render the first edition's spellings ...
... Hartley before he goes to India ( 223.22–24 ; 262.8 , 13 ) . A similar oversight leads the narrator to forget that Witherington is a Catholic ( 164.8 ; 240.16-17 ) . No attempt has been made to render the first edition's spellings ...
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