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Kenilworth
Av Walter Scott, J. H. Alexander
Inbunden, 1993
2437 kr
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In his ever-popular romance of Tudor England, Scott brilliantly recreates all the passion, brutality, verve and vitality of the Elizabethan world. Only two of his novels end tragically - Kenilworth ends with the death of Amy Robsart, who unwisely loved Queen Elizabeth’s favourite, the Earl of …
Tale of Old Mortality
Av Walter Scott, Douglas S. Mack
Inbunden, 1993
2741 kr
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The Tale of Old Mortality describes the lives - and often violent deaths - the hopes, and the struggles, of the Covenanters in late seventeenth-century Scotland. A tale of extremism, bigotry and cruelty, it is redeemed by its characters’ courage and loyalty, and their passionate belief in religious …
Black Dwarf
Av Walter Scott, Peter Garside
Inbunden, 1993
1727 kr
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Set in south-west Scotland in the immediate aftermath of the 1707 Union, The Black Dwarf was intended to be a story about the first, abortive, Jacobite uprising of 1708. Instead it developed into a gothic tale of the supernatural. This new edition brings out the virtues in the story, long overlaid …
Saint Ronan's Well
Av Walter Scott, Mark Weinstein
Inbunden, 1995
2437 kr
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Meg Dods, a sentimental virago, keeps a rundown inn in a derelict Tweedale village, while the young Laird is living way beyond his means. When a nearby spring becomes a Spa, life changes as a hotel and a troop of social climbers move in. But this is not a tale of antique virtue giving way to …
Antiquary
Inbunden, 1995
2437 kr
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The third of the Waverley Novels is dominated by two old men, Jonathan Oldbuck (the Antiquary of the title) and the beggar Edie Ochiltree. Together they apply their knowledge of the past to sort out the confusion of the present, and in doing so restore the fortunes of ancient houses. This was …
Waverley
Av Walter Scott, Peter Garside
Inbunden, 2007
2856 kr
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Edward Waverley is a young, cultured man whose sensibilities lead to his involvement in the Jacobite Rising of 1745. In his journey into Scotland, down to Derby, and back up again, he explores the cultural and political geography of Great Britain.Waverley; or, 'tis Sixty Years Since was Scott's …
Guy Mannering
Av Walter Scott, Peter Garside
Inbunden, 1999
2437 kr
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Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, first published in 1815, was Walter Scott's second novel. Guy Mannering only half-believes in his art, but does believe in the ability of his patriarchal power, wealth and social position to sort out social confusion. However he has to learn the limits of a nabob's …
Rob Roy
Inbunden, 2008
2856 kr
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Rob Roy is set in 1715, but it is less concerned with the Jacobite Rising than with the economic and political conditions which brought it about, and the remarkable entrepreneurial spirit of the new Hanoverian capitalists which resisted it. It celebrates the freebooting daring of the hero's father …
Heart of Mid-Lothian
Av Walter Scott, Alison Lumsden m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
2856 kr
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The Heart of Mid-Lothian is precisely focused on the trials for murder of John Porteous and of Effie Deans in 1736 and 1737. Yet it is a chronicle—Scott’s only chronicle—which spans the eighty years of the life of David Deans, whose death takes place in 1751. It is the most complex of all Scott’s …
Bride of Lammermoor
Av Walter Scott, J. H. Alexander
Inbunden, 1996
2437 kr
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The most haunting and Shakespearean of Scott’s novels, The Bride of Lammermoor is a fast-paced tragedy set on the eve of the 1707 Union. The proud young Master of Ravenswood sees his estate pass to the astute Sir William Ashton. When Ravenswood falls in love with Ashton’s daughter, her diabolical …
Legend of the Wars of Montrose
Av Walter Scott, J. H. Alexander
Inbunden, 1996
2437 kr
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Against the background of Montrose’s campaign of 1644-5, this spirited novel centres on one of Scott’s most memorable creations - Sir Dugald Dalgetty of Drumthwacket. This hard-headed Aberdonian contrasts tellingly with the weird and passionate Highland feud in which he becomes perilously …
Ivanhoe
Av Walter Scott, Graham Tulloch
Inbunden, 1997
2437 kr
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The first of Scott’s Waverley novels burst upon an astonished world in 1814. Its publication marked the emergence of the modern novel in the western world, influencing all the great nineteenth-century writers. This handsome new edition of Sir Walter Scott’s novels captures the original power and …
Monastery
Av Walter Scott, Penny Fielding
Inbunden, 2001
2437 kr
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Set on the eve of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland, The Monastery is full of supernatural events, theological conflict, and humour. Located in the lawless Scottish Borders, the novel depicts the monastery of Kennaquhair (a thinly disguised Melrose Abbey, whose ruins are still to be seen near …
Abbot
Av Walter Scott
Inbunden, 2000
2344 kr
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The Abbotconcludes the fiction begun in The Monastery. Scott follows the fortunes of young Roland Graeme as he emerges from rural obscurity to become an attendant of Mary Queen of Scots during her captivity in Lochleven Castle. Roland's part in Mary's escape from the Castle is excitingly narrated, …
Pirate
Av Walter Scott, Mark Weinstein m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
2102 kr
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No historical figures appear in The Pirate, and there are no historical events, but it is still an historical novel because it dramatises those ‘corners of time’ where an old era is coming to an end, and a new is beginning. The novel is set in Orkney and Shetland in 1689, and for the northern isles …
Fortunes Of Nigel
Inbunden, 2004
2437 kr
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Set at the end of the reign of James VI and I, The Fortunes of Nigel sits among Walter Scott’s richest creations in political insight, range of characterisation and linguistic virtuosity.Well versed in the political literature of the period, Scott drew a detailed picture of London in the early 17th …
Peveril of the Peak
Av Walter Scott, Alison Lumsden
Inbunden, 2007
2437 kr
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‘Here is a plot without a drop of blood; and all the elements of a romance, without its conclusion’, comments the King towards the end of Scott’s longest, and arguably most intriguing, novel. Set against the backdrop of the Popish Plot to overturn Charles II, Peveril of the Peak explores the …
Quentin Durward
Av Walter Scott, J. H. Alexander m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
2437 kr
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Quentin Durward is a young Scotsman seeking fame and fortune in the France of Louis XI in the fifteenth century. He knows little and understands less, but Scott represents his ignorance and naiveté as useful to ‘the most sagacious prince in Europe’ who needs servants motivated solely by the desire …
Redgauntlet
Av Walter Scott, G A M Wood m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
2344 kr
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In the summer of 1765 Darsie Latimer sets out to discover the secret of his parentage in a journey to the wilds of Dumfriesshire. But very soon he discovers that he must confront not geographical but ideological wilds, for he is kidnapped by Edward Hugh Redgauntlet and involved in a last, …
Betrothed
Av Walter Scott, J. B. Ellis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2102 kr
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Set at the time of the Third Crusade (1189 - 92), The Betrothed is the first of Scott’s Tales of the Crusaders. The betrothed is Eveline, daughter of a Norman noble, who is a victim of the Crusade in that her intended husband is required by the Church to fulfil his vow to join the war and departs …
Talisman
Av Walter Scott, J. B. Ellis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2437 kr
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The second of Tales of the Crusaders, The Talisman is set in Palestine during the Third Crusade (1189 - 92). Scott constructs a story of chivalric action, apparently adopting a medieval romance view of the similarities in the values of both sides. But disguise is the leading theme of the tale: it …
Woodstock
Av Walter Scott, Tony Inglis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2183 kr
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Woodstock opens in farce, yet it is one of Scott's darkest novels. It deals with revolution, to Scott the most disturbing of all subjects: 'it appears that every step we made towards liberty, has but brought us in view of more terrific perils'. Written during the financial crisis which led to his …
Chronicles of the Canongate
Av Walter Scott, Claire Lamont
Inbunden, 2001
2437 kr
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Chronicles of the Canongate is unique among Scott's works as it is his only collection of shorter fiction. It contains his best-known tales, 'The Highland Widow' and 'The Two Drovers', and a third, less well known but of startling originality, 'The Surgeon's Daughter'. The three are set within the …
Fair Maid of Perth
Av Walter Scott, Andrew Hook m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
2437 kr
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The Fair Maid of Perth centres on the merchant classes of Perth in the fourteenth century, and their commitment to the pacific values of trade, in a bloody and brutal era in which no right to life is recognised, and in which the Scottish nobles fight for control of the weak Scottish monarchy, and …
Anne of Geierstein
Av Walter Scott, J. H. Alexander
Inbunden, 2000
2437 kr
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Anne of Geierstein (1829) is set in Central Europe in the fifteenth century, but it is a remarkably modern novel, for the central issues are the political instability and violence that arise from the mix of peoples and the fluidity of European boundaries. With Anne of Geierstein Scott concludes the …
Count Robert of Paris
Av Walter Scott, J. H. Alexander
Inbunden, 2006
2856 kr
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Count Robert of Paris, condemned by Scott’s printer as ‘altogether a failure’, was later prepared for publication by his son-in-law, J. G. Lockhart , and his publisher Robert Cadell. What appeared was a bowdlerised, tamed and tidied version of what Scott had written and dictated. This edition, the …
Castle Dangerous
Av Walter Scott, J. H. Alexander
Inbunden, 2006
2856 kr
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Castle Dangerous is the realisation of a thirty-year old project of Scott’s to retell a story found in Barbour’s Brus. Set in the early fourteenth century during the Scottish Wars of Independence, an English knight for a love wager commits himself to defend Douglas Castle against Scottish attempts …
Shorter Fiction
Av Walter Scott, Graham Tulloch m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2437 kr
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Scott wrote short stories throughout his career, some included within novels, others published separately in periodicals. This collection of the stories from periodicals extends from his earliest published fiction to his last and comprises pieces from The Edinburgh Annual Register (1811), The …
Introductions and Notes from the Magnum Opus
Waverley to a Legend of the Wars of Montrose
Av Walter Scott, J. H. Alexander
Inbunden, 2012
2521 kr
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Between 1829 and 1833 the first complete edition of Scott's fiction appeared, in 48 volumes issued one a month, each illustrated with two engravings, and with introductions and notes by Scott himself. The Magnum Opus, as it was familiarly called, was a project which aimed to reduce the enormous …
Introductions and Notes from the Magnum Opus
Ivanhoe to Castle Dangerous
Av Walter Scott, J. H. Alexander
Inbunden, 2012
2521 kr
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Between 1829 and 1833 the first complete edition of Scott's fiction appeared, in 48 volumes issued one a month, each illustrated with two engravings, and with introductions and notes by Scott himself. The Magnum Opus, as it was familiarly called, was a project which aimed to reduce the enormous …
