Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Waverley Novels ...: The betrothed; The highland widow
Author: Walter ScottWaverley Novels: the betrothed and The highland widow
Author: Walter ScottWaverly Novels: The betrothed and the Highland widow
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historical fiction, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Waverley Novels: The betrothed. Chronicles of the Canongate. The Highland widow. 1860
Author: Walter ScottWaverley Novels: The betrothed. Chronicles of the Canongate. The Highland widow. 1860
Author: Sir Walter ScottWaverley Novels
Author: Sir Walter ScottPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9780461004960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
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The Waverley novels
Author: Walter ScottWaverley Novels: The fair maid of Perth. 1860
Author: Sir Walter ScottRob Roy
Author: Walter ScottThe Betrothed
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
ISBN: 9780461768442
Category : Boundary disputes
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Highland Widow: "The tale takes place on the banks of the River Awe in Argyllshire during the Seven Years War (1756-63). The heroine is Elspat MacTavish, the widow of MacTavish Mhor, one of the last of the Highland caterans ('marauders'), shot as a Jacobite after the battle of Culloden in 1745. She lives alone with her son, Hamish Bean MacTavish, hoping that he will grow up to revive his father's way of life. Hamish, however, realizes that in changed times the only honourable way he can imitate his father's courage and sense of adventure is by joining a government regiment destined for America. When Hamish visits his mother on a furlough, the incensed Elspat drugs him so that he sleeps beyond his leave of absence, hoping that he will escape with her and lead the life of a cateran rather than be branded a deserter. Instead he awaits his fate but is goaded by his mother into killing the officer sent to arrest her. Hamish is tried and executed; Elspat devotes the rest of her life to mourning and remorse before disappearing to die in solitude."--Http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk.