Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
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Category : Innerleithen (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
St. Ronan's Well
Author: Walter ScottSaint Ronan's Well
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
St Ronan's Well
Author: Sir Walter ScottSt. Ronan's Well
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Innerleithen (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
St. Ronan's Well
Author: Walter ScottPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
'Saint Ronan's Well' is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. It is set in a fashionable spa in the Scottish Borders and is the only novel he wrote with a 19th-century setting. The story revolves around the rivalry of two men: Valentine Bulmer, the Earl of Etherington, and his half-brother Francis Tyrrel, both of whom are vying for the affections of Miss Clara Mowbray, the sister of John, the laird of Saint Ronan's.
St. Ronan's Well
Author: Sir Walter ScottPublisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849645339
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
The last of the "Waverley Novels" in point of time reaches a period only a few years prior to its day of writing. It is also "upon a plan different from any other that the author had ever written''—that of depicting contemporary social life. The chief thread of the plot, relating to the victimizing of an unfortunate young woman, is somewhat involved (and perhaps weakened by the author's subsequent change in his original MS.) and can be explained more clearly at the outset than by following the development of the story. Clara Mowbray, the only daughter of a wealthy landowner in southern Scotland, is at sixteen the romantic comrade of an older and more unprincipled cousin, Hannah Irwin. Together they roam the countryside and read exotic works of fiction. In the course of these jaunts Clara meets a handsome young stranger, Francis Tyrrel, whose birth is under a cloud. They declare a mutual passion which is fostered by Hannah. Francis's half-brother, Valentine Bulmer, the ostensible heir of their father, the Earl of Etherington, acts as go-between for the young people and arranges a secret marriage at night; but at the ceremony Bulmer substitutes himself as the bridegroom ...
st. ronan's well
Author: sir walter scott, bartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Waverley Novels: St. Ronan's well
Author: Walter ScottSt. Ronan's Well, Complete
Author: Walter ScottPublisher: VM eBooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 695
Book Description
"'St. Ronan's Well' is not so much my favourite as certain of its predecessors," Lady Louisa Stuart wrote to Scott on March 26, 1824. "Yet still I see the author's hand in it, et c'est tout dire. Meg Dods, the meeting" (vol. i. chap. ix.), "and the last scene between Clara and her brother, are marked with the true stamp, not to be matched or mistaken. Is the Siege of Ptolemais really on the anvil?" she goes on, speaking of the projected Crusading Tales, and obviously anxious to part company with "St. Ronan's Well." All judgments have not agreed with Lady Louisa's. There is a literary legend or fable according to which a number of distinguished men, all admirers of Scott, wrote down separately the name of their favourite Waverley novel, and all, when the papers were compared, had written "St. Ronan's." Sydney Smith, writing to Constable on Dec. 28, 1823, described the new story as "far the best that has appeared for some time. Every now and then there is some mistaken or overcharged humour--but much excellent delineation of character, the story very well told, and the whole very interesting. Lady Binks, the old landlady, and Touchwood are all very good. Mrs. Blower particularly so. So are MacTurk and Lady Penelope. I wish he would give his people better names; Sir Bingo Binks is quite ridiculous.... The curtain should have dropped on finding Clara's glove. Some of the serious scenes with Clara and her brother are very fine: the knife scene masterly. In her light and gay moments Clara is very vulgar; but Sir Walter always fails in well-bred men and women, and yet who has seen more of both? and who, in the ordinary intercourse of society, is better bred? Upon the whole, I call this a very successful exhibition."
Author: Walter Scott