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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 DescriptionMeg Dods, a sentimental virago, keeps a rundown inn in a derelict Tweedale village, while the show more young Laird is living way beyond his means. When a nearby spring becomes a Spa, life changes as a hotel and a troop of social climbers move in. But this is not a tale of antique virtue giving way to decadent ostentation: although the gang at the 'Well' dance the seven deadly sins, everyone in the book has feet of clay. show less

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
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823.7Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1800-1837
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PR5322Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature19th century , 1770/1800-1890/1900
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