Chronicles of the Canongate, 1st and 2nd sets
by Sir Walter Scott
Chronicles of the Canongate, story order (Collections and Selections — Omnibus), Chronicles of the Canongate, publication order (Collections and Selections — Omninbus), Waverley Novels (Collections and Selections — Omnibus)
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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748605842);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 DescriptionChronicles of the Canongate is unique among show more Scott's works as it is his only collection of shorter fiction. It contains his best-known tales, 'The Highland Widow' and 'The Two Drovers', and a third, less well known but of startling originality, 'The Surgeon's Daughter'. The three are set within the framing narrative of Chrystal Croftangry, an old bankrupt with pretensions to literature, who must inevitably be seen as a portrait of the artist facing up to his own insolvency in 1826.Tales in a framework have a long ancestry in European and Oriental literature, and in Chronicles of the Canongate Scott adapts the genre with consummate skill. Each of the stories and Croftangry's narrative may be read independently, but together they constitute a themed work in which the narrator treats of the cultural conflicts in the new Britain and its growing empire in the thirty years from 1756.This edition of Chronicles of the Canongate recovers a truly inventive work which is here republished in its original form for only the second time since Scott's death in 1832." show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Chronicles of the Canongate, 1st and 2nd sets
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- 1827-1828
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- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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- The first set/series of Scott's "The Chronicles Of The Canongate" contains "The Highland Widow", "The Two Drovers", and "The Surgeon's Daughter". The second set/series is actually the same work as "The Fair Maid of Perth". Th... (show all)us, the complete Chronicles of the Cannongate contains "The Highland Widow", "The Two Drovers", "The Surgeon's Daughter", and "The Fair Maid of Perth".
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