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The Fair Maid of Perth (Hardcover, Revised)
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The Fair Maid of Perth (Hardcover, Revised)
Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
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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 clans are prepared to extinguish
each other to gain supremacy in the central Highlands. It is a
remarkable novel, in part because late in his career Scott has a
new subject, and in part because he employs a spare narrative style
that is without parallel in the rest of his oeuvre. Far too many
critics, from his son-in-law J.G. Lockhart to the present day, have
written off late Scott, and seen his last works as evidence of
failing powers. The readers of this edition of The Fair Maid of
Perth will see that these critics are mistaken, for in it we
witness a luminous creative intelligence working at high pressure
to produce a tightly organised and deeply moving novel.
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