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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... lady with a long memory . Described in her richly furnished house , entertaining guests according to the conventions of an earlier age , she represents cultivated , cosmopolitan Edinburgh , with its links to the Continent . One thing ...
... lady with a long memory . Described in her richly furnished house , entertaining guests according to the conventions of an earlier age , she represents cultivated , cosmopolitan Edinburgh , with its links to the Continent . One thing ...
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... Lady Louisa Stuart , who proved to be one of the most acute and trusted of his friends and critics . Moved to 19 Castle Street , Edinburgh . October . Birth and death of first son . Publication of Goetz of Berlichingen , Scott's ...
... Lady Louisa Stuart , who proved to be one of the most acute and trusted of his friends and critics . Moved to 19 Castle Street , Edinburgh . October . Birth and death of first son . Publication of Goetz of Berlichingen , Scott's ...
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... Lady of the Lake , his most commercially successful poem . Scott's predecessor as Clerk of Session agreed to apply for a pension , and from 1812 Scott was paid a salary of £ 1300 per annum . Publication of poem The Vision of Don ...
... Lady of the Lake , his most commercially successful poem . Scott's predecessor as Clerk of Session agreed to apply for a pension , and from 1812 Scott was paid a salary of £ 1300 per annum . Publication of poem The Vision of Don ...
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... lady ) , who favoured me with the history of the upright and high principled female , whom , in the Heart of Mid- Lothian , I have termed Jeanie Deans . The circumstance of her refus- ing to save her sister's life by an act of perjury ...
... lady ) , who favoured me with the history of the upright and high principled female , whom , in the Heart of Mid- Lothian , I have termed Jeanie Deans . The circumstance of her refus- ing to save her sister's life by an act of perjury ...
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