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Guy Mannering (Hardcover, Revised)
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Guy Mannering (Hardcover, Revised)
Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
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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 authority in a society that
(in the 1780s) is no longer a single hierarchy but has many
subsets, each with its own laws - gypsies, smugglers, Edinburgh
lawyers, the Border store farmer, the traditional landowner. Guy
Mannering is set at the time of the American Revolution, and
represents a Scotland at once backward and advanced, patriarchal
and commercial, traditional and modern, a country in very varied
stages of progression. This is the first modern edition of one of
Scott's finest works. It is based on the first edition, but is
corrected from the manuscript, and restores around two thousand
readings lost through error or misunderstanding. For the first time
it includes Scott's extended portraits of the Edinburgh literati
which were unaccountably omitted from the printed version.
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