Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Waverly Novels: Woodstock. The Highland widow. The two drovers. The surgeon's daughter
Author: Walter ScottWaverley Novels: Woodstock. The Highland widow. The two drovers. The surgeon's daughter
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
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Category : Historical fiction, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Waverly Novels: Woodstock. Chronicles of the Canongate: Introductory; The Highland widow. The two drovers. The surgeon's daughter
Author: Walter ScottThe Surgeon's Daughter
Author: Sir Walter ScottPublisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 384964541X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"The Surgeon's Daughter" is chiefly remarkable for its disregard of the unities of time and place. Though one of the shorter novels, its action extends through more than a quarter of a century, involving a great variety of characters and scenes widely remote, in all of which action the "Daughter" herself is little more than a lay figure. Dr. Gideon Gray, an estimable Scotch village surgeon, gives professional attention in his home to a masked lady, to whom a son is born. The lady proves to be Zilia de Mongada, daughter of a proud Portuguese Jew, who soon after reclaims her, but leaves her illegitimate child in the care of the surgeon. He is christened Richard Middlemas—the last being the name of the village—and grows up under the good practitioner's roof with more or less exaggerated ideas of his obscure parentage. The surgeon's only daughter, Menie, is his constant playmate, and when the two young people are barely grown they plight their troth ...
The Surgeon's Daughter and Castle Dangerous
Author: Walter ScottPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382178079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Waverley Novels: The surgeon's daughter
Author: Walter ScottWaverley Novels ...: The betrothed; The highland widow
Author: Walter ScottThe Black Dwarf
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Rob Roy
Author: Walter ScottThe Antiquary
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
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Category : Scottish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description