Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Tales of my landlord, first series: Black dwarf; Old mortality
The Black Dwarf.-A Legend of Montrose
The Black Dwarf
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Black Dwarf
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781522778608
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Walter Scott's novel The Black Dwarf was part of his Tales of My Landlord, 1st series, published along with Old Mortality on 2 December 1816 by William Blackwood, Edinburgh, and John Murray, London. Originally the four volumes of the series were to tell separate stories, but Old Mortality came to occupy three of them. The story is set just after the Union of Scotland and England (1707), in the Liddesdale hills of the Scottish Borders, familiar to Scott from his work collecting ballads for The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. The main character is based on David Ritchie, whom Scott met in the autumn of 1797. In the tale, the dwarf is Sir Edward Mauley, a hermit regarded by the locals as being in league with the Devil, who becomes embroiled in a complex tale of love, revenge, betrayal, Jacobite schemes and a threatened forced marriage. Scott began the novel well, "but tired of the ground I had trode so often before... I quarrelled with my story, & bungled up a conclusion."
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781522778608
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Walter Scott's novel The Black Dwarf was part of his Tales of My Landlord, 1st series, published along with Old Mortality on 2 December 1816 by William Blackwood, Edinburgh, and John Murray, London. Originally the four volumes of the series were to tell separate stories, but Old Mortality came to occupy three of them. The story is set just after the Union of Scotland and England (1707), in the Liddesdale hills of the Scottish Borders, familiar to Scott from his work collecting ballads for The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. The main character is based on David Ritchie, whom Scott met in the autumn of 1797. In the tale, the dwarf is Sir Edward Mauley, a hermit regarded by the locals as being in league with the Devil, who becomes embroiled in a complex tale of love, revenge, betrayal, Jacobite schemes and a threatened forced marriage. Scott began the novel well, "but tired of the ground I had trode so often before... I quarrelled with my story, & bungled up a conclusion."
Old Mortality
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bothwell Bridge, Battle of, Scotland, 1679
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bothwell Bridge, Battle of, Scotland, 1679
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
The Waverley Novels: Old mortality
The Black Dwarf & A Legend of Montrose
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
A History of English Literature
A History of English Literature
Author: Thomas B. Shaw
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368722514
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368722514
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.