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1745. The year of the final Jacobite uprising. Edward Waverley, a
naïve, aristocratic English soldier is posted to Dundee as part of
the Hanoverian army. He takes leave to visit the castle of his
uncle’s Jacobite friend, Baron Bradwardine, in the lowlands of
Scotland. Wild Highlanders visit the castle, and curiosity gets the
better of Waverley. He travels north into the Scottish Highlands
and the heart of the Jacobite rebellion and its aftermath. Our hero
finds himself caught between the Jacobite clans and the Hanoverian
regime, and between two women – the feisty Flora MacIvor, sister
of the clan chief, and the Baron’s quiet, demure daughter Rose.
This edition of Sir Walter Scott’s classic novel of history and
romance has been expertly reworked for modern audiences by Jenni
Calder.
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best-loved, essential classics. Wilfred of Ivanhoe is a Saxon loyal
to the Norman king Richard I. Because of this loyalty, and his love
for Lady Rowena, Ivanhoe is cast out by his father, a Saxon
loyalist determined to liberate the Saxon people from Norman rule.
He plans to marry Rowena, his ward and a descendant of the Saxon
king Alfred, to Lord Aethelstane, pretender to the throne of
England. In so doing, Ivanhoe would unite two rival Saxon houses in
their claim for the crown. Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades in
secret and is joined in his plans to re-establish Richard on the
thrown by the moneylender Isaac of York, his daughter Rebecca, the
mysterious Black Knight, Lady Rowena, and Robin Hood and his merry
men.
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Rob Roy (Paperback)
Walter Scott; Introduction by David Blair; Notes by David Blair; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction and Notes by David Blair. From its first
publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some
of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realised
characters. The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor was already a legendary,
disputed figure by the time Scott wrote - a heroic Scottish Robin
Hood to some, an over-glamorised, unprincipled predator to others.
Scott approaches Rob Roy indirectly, through the adventures of his
fictional hero, Frank Osbaldistone, amid the political turmoil of
England and Scotland in 1715. With characteristic care Scott
reconstructs the period and settings so as to place Rob Roy and the
Scotland he inhabits amid conflicting moral, economic and
historical forces. This edition features, besides a new critical
introduction and extensive explanatory notes, an essay outlining
clearly the novel's historical context and a glossary of Scottish
words and phrases used by Scott's colourful, vernacular characters.
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Rob Roy (Paperback)
Walter Scott; Illustrated by Ken Laidlaw
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But what is Rashleigh up to? Who are his mysterious friends? Frank
has to find some missing papers to save his father's business. The
search takes him to Scotland. His life is in danger. Who wants to
kill him? Frank meets the outlaw Rob Roy and heads for the
Highlands. He's seized by soldiers looking for Jacobite rebels.
Whose side is Rob Roy really on? And how can Frank get the papers
to save his father?
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Rob Roy (Hardcover)
Walter Scott; Illustrated by Rudolph Palais, Walter Palais
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The adventures of Francis Osbaldistone and his time in Scotland
with the famous outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor during the time of the
1715 Jacobite Rising. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful
tale in colourful comic strip form, offering an excellent
introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a
biography of Sir Walter Scott, theme discussions and study
questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to
further engage the reader in the story.
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Ivanhoe (Hardcover)
Walter Scott; Illustrated by Norman Nodel
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Sir Walter Scott's tale of adventure during the times of Robin
Hood. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colourful
comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger
readers. This edition also includes a biography of Sir Walter Scott
and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at
home to further engage the reader in the story.
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Waverley (Paperback)
Walter Scott; Retold by Margaret Elphinstone; Illustrated by Ken Laidlaw
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Life with his regiment in Scotland is dull until he visits his
uncle's friends in the Highlands, where he meets Fergus McIvor and
his sister Flora. Attracted by the wild freedom and romance of the
Scottish clans, Edward finds himself in a difficult and dangerous
position. His new friends are Jacobites, planning to overthrow King
George and restore the Stuart monarchy. The Jacobites rise in
rebellion. When Prince Charles leads an invasion of England,
Edward's loyalties are hopelessly divided. Whose side will he take?
And what fate awaits them all?
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Heart of Midlothian (Paperback)
Walter Scott; Illustrated by Ken Laidlaw; Edited by Margaret Elphinstone
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'The Heart of Midlothian' presents the story of Jeanie Deans, a
dairymaid who journeys to London to beg for a reprieve for her
sister. Set in the 1730s, the novel dramatises different kinds of
justice, including lynching by an Edinburgh mob.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is chiefly remembered as one of the
great historical novelists, with his best-known works including
Waverley (1814), Ivanhoe (1819), and Redgauntlet (1824). His
experiments in short fiction, however, began before he published
his first novel and throughout his career he returned to the short
story form, writing tales which often contained elements of
Scottish supernaturalism or the macabre. As It Was Told to Me,
introduced by Daniel Cook, collects three of Scott's short stories
in one volume. 'My Aunt Margaret's Mirror', mixes a tale of
reckless romance with supernatural theatrics; 'The Two Drovers'
offers a slow-burn expose of national conflict; and 'Wandering
Willie's Tale' weaves a yarn around the grisly death of a despotic
laird and a trip to hell.
The FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a
delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition
features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers
and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary
of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. Set
in twelfth-century England during the reign of Richard I, Ivanhoe
is Sir Walter Scott's best known novel. Its depictions of witch
trials, violent tournaments, sieges and ambushes make it a gripping
read. The tense divisions between the Normans and the Saxons, the
rich, the poor and the controversial figure of Robin Hood, and
between King Richard and his untrustworthy brother are all explored
in this brilliant account of the medieval era.
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Scottish Stories (Hardcover)
Walter Scott, James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Margaret Oliphant, John Buchan, …
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Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly
literary land, where the short story has flourished for over two
centuries. Here are chilling supernatural stories from Robert Louis
Stevenson, Eric Linklater and Dorothy K. Haynes; side-splittingly
funny stories from Alasdair Gray and Irvine Welsh; a stylish
offering from urban realist William McIlvanney. Iain Crichton Smith
evokes the Gaelic-speaking highlands, George Mackay-Brown the
Orkney islands, Andrew O'Hagan working-class Glasgow; while Leila
Aboulela, originally from Sudan, ponders the relations between
colonizers and colonized from her home in Aberdeen. Though there is
no one 'Scottishness' that binds the authors together, writes
editor Gerard Carruthers, each has a Scottish footprint or accent.
And perhaps more importantly, all are masters of their form.
A party on the Highland Tour, taking a scenic break from their
journey come upon a miserable hut hid away among some cliffs; the
ladies, upon enquiring what lies before them, hear the wretched
tale of Elspat MacTavish, the Highland Widow, condemned forever to
live penitent and alone. Condemned by her love for her husband and
her only son. Full of honourable intentions, after the suppression
of the Highland clans, to join the coalition on its campaign
against the French into America, the unfortunate Hamish alas finds
himself tricked by his own mother. The ensuing events lead to a
tragic ending, made all the more pathetic by the unquenchable
passion of a once-proud nation beating still in the breast of one
woman.
"I have all my life regretted that I did not keep a regular
(journal). I have myself lost recollection of much that was
interesting and I have deprived my family and the public of some
curious information by not carrying this resolution into effect."
Sunday 20 November, 1825 With these words Scott began what many
regard as his greatest work, a diary which was to turn into an
extraordinary day-to-day account of the last six years of his life,
years of financial ruin, bereavement, and increasing ill health. As
he laboured to pay off debts of over GBP120,000, Scott emerges, not
simply as a great writer, but as an almost heroic figure whose
generosity and even temper shine through at all times. This edition
presents a complete edited text and notes drawing on a wealth of
other material including correspondence, reminiscences and the
memoirs of Scott's contemporaries. It remains one of the standards
by which Scott scholarship is judged.
A complete, critically edited edition of the Waverley Novels as
Scott originally wrote them 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 19th-century writers. This edition of Sir Walter Scott's
novels captures the original power and freshness of his best-loved
novels. Scott originally wrote and intended his public to read
before errors, misreadings and expurgations crept in during
production. This edition offers: a clean, corrected text; textual
histories; explanatory notes; verbal changes from the first-edition
text; and full glossaries. this novel focuses on the arrival of the
first Crusaders in 1096. During the oath-taking ceremony on the eve
of the Crusade, the haughty Count Robert insults the Emperor by
seating himself on the imperial throne.
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 century while charting
the effects of Scottish influx into the English capital: the
ambitions and fears of the incomers and the suspicion they aroused.
The complex web of political (and sexual) intrigue, and especially
of all-important financial dealings and double-dealings, is traced
with a master's hand. No Scott novel has a more memorable cast of
characters. King James heads them, with his childish
irresponsibility and elusive character: a would-be Solomon and
father of his country, theological disputant, prurient bisexual.
But not far behind are jeweller George Heriot, clockmaker Davie
Ramsay, courtier Sir Mungo Malagrowther, servant Richie Moniplies
and many vivid minor characters. Steeped in Jacobean drama, this
tale shows Scott revelling in the linguistic riches of the
age.Previous editions have obscured his virtuosity (as seen in a
dazzlingly proto-Joycean monologue by a Greenwich barber), but
painstaking examination of the manuscript and proofs for this new
edition allows the full vigour of Scott's achievement to be
savoured for the first time.
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 framing narrative of
Chrystal Croftangry, an old bankrupt with pretensions to
literature, who must inevitably be seen as a portrait of the artist
facing up to his own insolvency in 1826. Tales in a framework have
a long ancestry in European and Oriental literature, and in
Chronicles of the Canongate Scott adapts the genre with consummate
skill. Each of the stories and Croftangry's narrative may be read
independently, but together they constitute a themed work in which
the narrator treats of the cultural conflicts in the new Britain
and its growing empire in the thirty years from 1756. This edition
of Chronicles of the Canongate recovers a truly inventive work
which is here republished in its original form for only the second
time since Scott's death in 1832.
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 unfinished historical
business of Quentin Durward, working on a larger canvas with
broader brush-strokes and generally with more sombre colours. The
novel illustrates the darkening of Scott's historical vision in the
final part of his career. It is also a remarkable manifestation of
the way in which the scope of his imaginative vision continued to
expand even as his physical powers declined. This new edition is
based upon the first edition but is corrected by recovering from
the manuscript about 2000 readings lost in some cases by
misreadings of what Scott had written, but in many others from the
assumption that those who processed Scott's text knew better than
he did. This is the first modern critical edition of what was in
its day a remarkably successful novel.
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 decadent ostentation: although the
gang at the 'Well' dance the seven deadly sins, everyone in the
book has feet of clay.
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 Scott's favourite among his
novels, and presents a quizzical and amusing view of the profession
of history and, by implication, of Scott's own practice as writer
and collector.
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 and civil liberty. Considered
to be one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century, its
influence pervades European writing from Stendhal to Tolstoy.
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Kenilworth (Hardcover)
Walter Scott; Edited by J.H. Alexander
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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 Leicester.
When Marmion was published in 1808 it was met with both critical
and popular acclaim; four editions and over 11,000 copies were
produced in 1808 alone. It was with the overwhelming success of
Marmion that Scott's poetic reputation was indisputably
established, his emersion in the world of commercial publishing
confirmed, and his commitment to a literary life fully determined.
Scott here features as a topical poet, commemorating both national
events and occasions, as well as the work of his contemporaries.
His relations with aristocratic patrons, artists, and statesmen are
also amply reflected in the dedicatory epistles. This is arguably
the most challenging and most rewarding of all Scott poems. The
critical apparatus in this volume includes an extended essay on the
development of the text, a Historical Note, Explanatory Notes and a
full glossary of Scots, foreign and archaic words.
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