'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 on-going tensions between
Cavalier and Puritan loyalties during the fraught years of
Restoration England. Ranging from Derbyshire to the Isle of Man and
culminating in London it is a novel which interweaves political
intrigue, personal responsibilities and the ways in which the
forces of history are played out in the struggles of individual
human lives. But its true subject is perhaps the role of narration
and the limits of storytelling itself. In this, the first scholarly
edition of "Peveril," Alison Lumsden recovers a lost novel.
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