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Tales of the Wars of Montrose (Paperback, New Ed)
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Tales of the Wars of Montrose (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg
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In this collection of short stories Hogg focuses on the Scottish
civil war of 1644-45, in which the Marquis of Montrose led his
royalist forces in a series of stunning victories against the odds
before his final defeat at Philiphaugh. Each of Hogg's five tales
centres on one of the five major battles of Montrose's brilliant
but ultimately futile campaign. Each tale is utterly different from
the others in genre and tone, but taken together they build up a
composite picture of what it was like to experience the 'anarchy
and confusion' of the time at first hand. The importance of Tales
of the Wars of Montrose was long obscured by the fact that the
publisher of the first edition seriously mangled Hogg's text, not
least by including an unrelated sixth tale in order to bulk out the
collection to the commercially-expected norm of three volumes.
Gillian Hughes has restored Hogg's coherent five-tale collection,
and by returning to Hogg's manuscripts in preparing her edition she
has made possible the first appearance in print of an uncensored
text of this lively and innovative collection.
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