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Redgauntlet
Sir Walter Scott
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Description for Redgauntlet
Hardback. In the summer of 1765 Darsie Latimer sets out to discover the secret of his parentage in a journey to the wilds of Dumfriesshire. Editor(s): Wood, G.A.M. Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. Num Pages: 560 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 146 x 33. Weight in Grams: 758.
In 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 ... Read more
In 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
560
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Series
Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748605804
SKU
V9780748605804
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About Sir Walter Scott
G A M Wood was formerly Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Stirling.
Reviews for Redgauntlet
Yet another triumph in this marvellous series. Here are six English-language novels which I think great and which I do come back to. They all pass an essential test: that with each reading you find something new in them, and so they never exhaust what they have to say ... Redgauntlet, a warm and wonderfully relaxed novel celebrating, among other ... Read more