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Loading... Redgauntlet (1824)by Sir Walter Scott
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Belongs to SeriesWaverley Novels (1763) Waverley Novels, publication (1824) Belongs to Publisher SeriesEveryman's Library (141)
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 DescriptionIn the summer of 1765, Darsie Latimer sets out to discover the secret of his parentage in a journey to the wilds of Dumfriesshire. But very soon he discovers that he must confront not geographical but ideological wilds, for he is kidnapped by Edward Hugh Redgauntlet and involved in a last, fictional, attempt to restore the Stuarts to the British throne. The violent past is repeatedly recalled: the oral diablerie of the inset ‘Wandering Willie’s Tale’, probably the greatest short story ever written in Scots, provides a grotesque vision of the structures of an older Scotland. It is this older Scotland that Redgauntlet wishes to restore. No library descriptions found. |
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A complex plot that is well managed and which introduces colourful romantic characters who suit such high charged circumstances.
The action is conveyed through letters between two young friends who are central to the story, in the initial stages. Later their individual accounts propel the action forward. The location takes place on both sides of the border by Solway Firth in, or about the year, 1765.
A recommended introduction to Walter Scott.