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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... Richard is the illegitimate son of a Jacobite father and a Jewish mother , whose family had abandoned him at birth except for the payment of a modest maintenance to Gideon Grey . The child's fantasies about his xxii INTRODUCTION.
... Richard is the illegitimate son of a Jacobite father and a Jewish mother , whose family had abandoned him at birth except for the payment of a modest maintenance to Gideon Grey . The child's fantasies about his xxii INTRODUCTION.
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Sir Walter Scott Claire Lamont. maintenance to Gideon Grey . The child's fantasies about his origin had been encouraged by his nurse , who had led him to believe that his family would one day reclaim him and establish him in rank and ...
Sir Walter Scott Claire Lamont. maintenance to Gideon Grey . The child's fantasies about his origin had been encouraged by his nurse , who had led him to believe that his family would one day reclaim him and establish him in rank and ...
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... child . The siblings who survived were Robert ( 1767-87 ) , John ( 1769-1816 ) , Anne ( 1772- 1801 ) , Thomas ( 1774-1823 ) , and Daniel ( ? 1776-1806 ) . Winter . Contracted what is now termed poliomyelitis , and became permanently ...
... child . The siblings who survived were Robert ( 1767-87 ) , John ( 1769-1816 ) , Anne ( 1772- 1801 ) , Thomas ( 1774-1823 ) , and Daniel ( ? 1776-1806 ) . Winter . Contracted what is now termed poliomyelitis , and became permanently ...
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... child of eight or ten years old , was employed as the agent least likely to be suspected . She was an instance among others , that a time of danger and difficulty creates a premature sharpness of intellect . She made herself acquain ...
... child of eight or ten years old , was employed as the agent least likely to be suspected . She was an instance among others , that a time of danger and difficulty creates a premature sharpness of intellect . She made herself acquain ...
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... fretful- ness which have lessened , and even degraded , the character of the children of imagination , and rendered them , by petty squabbles and mutual irritability , the laughing - stock of the people INTRODUCTION 9.
... fretful- ness which have lessened , and even degraded , the character of the children of imagination , and rendered them , by petty squabbles and mutual irritability , the laughing - stock of the people INTRODUCTION 9.
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