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The Monastery (Waverley Novels, 9, Band 9) - Hardcover

Scott, Walter

 
9780748605743: The Monastery (Waverley Novels, 9, Band 9)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0748605746 ISBN 13: 9780748605743
Verlag: PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT, 2001

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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 text* Textual histories* Explanatory notes* Verbal changes from the first-edition text* Full glossariesTitle DescriptionSet on the eve of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland, The Monastery is full of supernatural events, theological conflict and humour. Located in the lawless Scottish Borders, the novel depicts the monastery of Kennaquhair (a thinly disguised Melrose Abbey, whose ruins are still to be seen near Scott's own home at Abbotsford) on the verge of dissolution, and the fortunes of two brothers as they respond to a new social and religious order. Highlights of the narrative include a moving encounter between two representatives of opposing sides in the Reformation controversy who had been students toget

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Sir Walter Scott, was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. Many of his works remain classics and include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor.

Penny Fielding is Senior Lecturer in English and Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh and one of the General Editors of the New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Her books include Scotland and the Fictions of Geography: North Britain 1760-1830 (CUP, 2008) and Writing and Orality: Nationality, Culture and Nineteenth-Century Scottish Fiction (OUP, 1996) as well as an edition of Scott's The Monastery for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels (Edinburgh EUP, 2000).



Penny Fielding is Senior Lecturer in English and Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh

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Verlag
PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0748605746
ISBN 13 
9780748605743
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
354
Herausgeber
Fielding Penny
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