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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... turning a rapidly written text from manuscript to print Scott was indebted to a series of people , copyist , printer , proof - reader , whom Scott editors have come to refer to as ' the inter- mediaries ' . The business of producing a ...
... turning a rapidly written text from manuscript to print Scott was indebted to a series of people , copyist , printer , proof - reader , whom Scott editors have come to refer to as ' the inter- mediaries ' . The business of producing a ...
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... turns his back on Glentanner , and settles into the favour of two old women in the Canongate : Janet MacEvoy and Mrs Martha Bethune Baliol . Mrs Bethune Baliol is an old lady with a long memory . Described in her richly furnished house ...
... turns his back on Glentanner , and settles into the favour of two old women in the Canongate : Janet MacEvoy and Mrs Martha Bethune Baliol . Mrs Bethune Baliol is an old lady with a long memory . Described in her richly furnished house ...
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... turn for dialogue , were rendered burlesque and ludicrous by this unmeaning and bizarre disguise , and that those attributes would become far more impressive , if aided by the spirit of his eye and the expression of his natural features ...
... turn for dialogue , were rendered burlesque and ludicrous by this unmeaning and bizarre disguise , and that those attributes would become far more impressive , if aided by the spirit of his eye and the expression of his natural features ...
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... turn to exert himself , and he wearied all the authorities , civil and military , with his solicitations for pardon to the saver of his life , or at least for a protection for his wife and family . His applications were for a long time ...
... turn to exert himself , and he wearied all the authorities , civil and military , with his solicitations for pardon to the saver of his life , or at least for a protection for his wife and family . His applications were for a long time ...
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... turn to the collection of the British Poets to discover apposite mottos , and , in the situation of the theatrical mechanist , who , when the white paper which represented his shower of snow was exhausted , continued the storm by ...
... turn to the collection of the British Poets to discover apposite mottos , and , in the situation of the theatrical mechanist , who , when the white paper which represented his shower of snow was exhausted , continued the storm by ...
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