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3%OFFSir Walter Scott - Chronicles of the Canongate - 9780748605842 - V9780748605842
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Chronicles of the Canongate

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Description for Chronicles of the Canongate Hardback. Chronicles of the Canongate is unique among Scott's works as it is his only collection of shorter fiction. Editor(s): Lamont, Claire. Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. Num Pages: 516 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 31. Weight in Grams: 714.
Chronicles of the Canongate is unique among 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Series
Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
Condition
New
Number of Pages
516
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748605842
SKU
V9780748605842
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About Sir Walter Scott
Claire Lamont is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Newcastle.

Reviews for Chronicles of the Canongate
The Edinburgh Edition respects Scott the artist by 'restoring' versions of the novels that are not quite what his first readers saw. Indeed, it returns to manuscripts that the printers never handled, as Scott's fiction before 1827 was transcribed before it reached the printshop. Each volume of the Edinburgh edition presents an uncluttered text of one work, followed by an ... Read more

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