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The Tale of Old Mortality / Douglas Mack, Walter Scott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, Walter, Author.
- Mack, Douglas, Author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels : EEWN
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (522 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Find Out What Scott Really WroteGoing back to the original manuscripts, a team of scholars has uncovered what Scott originally wrote and intended his public to read before errors, misreadings and expurgations crept in during production.The Edinburgh Edition offers you:A clean, corrected textTextual historiesExplanatory notesVerbal changes from the first-edition textFull glossariesTitle DescriptionThe Tale of Old Mortality describes the lives – and often violent deaths – the hopes, and the struggles, of the Covenanters in late seventeenth-century Scotland. A tale of extremism, bigotry and cruelty, it is redeemed by its characters' courage and loyalty, and their passionate belief in religious and civil liberty. Considered to be one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century, its influence pervades European writing from Stendhal to Tolstoy.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-3380-4
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