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Selected Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott

Author : Walter Scott

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Page : 208 pages

File Size : 25,35 MB

Release : 2011-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781904999959

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His Waverley novels brought Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) great international fame in his own day. Many modern readers, however, find them too daunting, perhaps because of their considerable length. The aim of this volume is to introduce the general reader to Scott's prose fiction through his highly accessible short stories. These include the "straightforward" horror stories My Aunt Margaret's Mirror and The Tapestried Chamber and the masterly Wandering Willie's Tale with its weird expedition to Hell, told in broad Scots. The Highland Widow and The Two Drovers mirror the themes of some of Scott's great novels. The former deals with friction and misunderstanding between generations in a Highland family - with fatal consequences. The latter examines ideas of justice and honour when Highlander and Englishman collide - again with fatal consequences.Also included are The Fortunes of Martin Waldeck and Death of the Laird's Jock. With an Introduction by Ronald W. Renton and an Essay byDavid Cecil.



Walter Scott and Short Fiction

Author : Daniel Cook

Publisher : EUP

Page : 208 pages

File Size : 10,67 MB

Release : 2023-02-18

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ISBN : 9781474487146

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A study of Walter Scott's short stories, novella and tales







Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves

Author : Rachel Malik

Publisher : Penguin UK

Page : 321 pages

File Size : 15,83 MB

Release : 2017-04-27

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0241976103

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2018** 'A surprisingly touching account of hidden lives forced out of the shadows' Sunday Times One day in 1940 Rene Hargreaves walks out on her family and the city to take a position as a Land Girl at the remote Starlight farm. There she will live with and help lonely farmer Elsie Boston. At first Elsie and Rene are unsure of one another - strangers from different worlds. But over time they each come to depend on the other. They become inseparable. Until the day a visitor from Rene's past arrives and their careful, secluded life is thrown into confusion. Suddenly, all they have built together is threatened. What will they do to protect themselves? And are they prepared for the consequences? 'So lovely, gentle yet enthralling' Claire Fuller 'Quietly beautiful and brilliant. This is no bucolic idyll but an unfolding of a plot that constantly twists and turns and surprises. A truly wonderful, memorable novel' Judges of the Walter Scott Prize 2018



Rob Roy

Author : Walter Scott

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Page : 686 pages

File Size : 33,29 MB

Release : 1872

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Death of the Laird's Jock

Author : Walter Scott

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Page : pages

File Size : 18,81 MB

Release : 2008

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Death of the Laird's Jock / Walter Scott.



Sir Walter Scott's Waverley

Author : Jenni Calder

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Page : 0 pages

File Size : 25,74 MB

Release : 2014

Category : English literature

ISBN : 9781910021255

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New and controversial major redaction of Walter Scott's Waverley, set in Scotland in 1745, the year of the Jacobite uprising.



The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories

Author : Douglas Dunn

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 476 pages

File Size : 16,76 MB

Release : 2008-09-10

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 0199556547

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From tales of the supernatural to pungent social realism, and from the humorous to the disturbing, whether rural or urban, this anthology shows the vitality of the Scottish short story.Douglas Dunn's eclectic selection displays the marvellous range of Scottish story-telling, beginning with three early traditional tales, and including a wealth of writers from the last three centuries: amongst them Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, J. M. Barrie, Violet Jacob, Neil Gunn, Eric Linklater, Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, and younger talents such as Ronald Frame, Janice Galloway, and A. L. Kennedy.



Walter Scott At 250

Author : Caroline McCracken-Flesher

Publisher : EUP

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 18,37 MB

Release : 2023-02-18

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9781474429870

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At 250, Walter Scott points toward our possible futures. Scott, although we necessarily look on his times as past, of course experienced them as present. His times were times of crisis. Scott, then, has much to share in the experience, narration, anticipation and response to change as a condition of life - a condition our era, with its existential challenges to climate, to public health, to civilization knows only too well. In Scott at 250, major scholars foreground the author as theorist of tomorrow - as the surveyor of the complexities of the present who also gazes, as we do, toward an anxious and hopeful future.