Guy Mannering Or, the Astrologer, Volume I

Auteur: Sir Walter Scott
Taal: Engels
Guy Mannering
Auteur: Sir Walter Scott Walter Scott
Co-auteur: Henry Rowley Bishop
  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9781103099887
  • januari 2009
  • 348 pagina's
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Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1771. Educated for the law, he obtained the office of sheriff-depute of Selkirkshire in 1799 and in 1806 the office of clerk of session, a post whose duties he fulfilled for some twenty-five years. His lifelong interest in Scottish antiquity and the ballads which recorded Scottish history led him to try his hand at narrative poems of adventure and action. The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Marmion (1808), and The Lady of the Lake (1810) made his reputation as one of the leading poets of his time. A novel, Waverley, which he had begun in 1805, was published anonymously in 1814. Subsequent novels appeared with the note “by the author of Waverley”; hence his novels often are called collectively “the Waverley novels.” Some of the most famous of these are Old Mortality (1816), Rob Roy (1817), Ivanhoe (1819), Kenilworth (1821), and Quentin Durward (1823). In recognition of his literary work Scott was made a baronet in 1819. During his last years he held various official positions and published biographies, editions of Swift and Dryden, tales, lyric poetry, and various studies of history and antiquity. He died in 1832.
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Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, first published in 1815, was Walter Scott's second novel. Guy Mannering only half-believes in his art, but does believe in the ability of his patriarchal power, wealth and social position to sort out social confusion. However he has to learn the limits of a nabob's authority in a society that (in the 1780s) is no longer a single hierarchy but has many subsets, each with its own laws - gypsies, smugglers, Edinburgh lawyers, the Border store farmer, the traditional landowner. Guy Mannering is set at the time of the American Revolution, and represents a Scotland at once backward and advanced, patriarchal and commercial, traditional and modern, a country in very varied stages of progression. This is the first modern edition of one of Scott's finest works. It is based on the first edition, but is corrected from the manuscript, and restores around two thousand readings lost through error or misunderstanding. For the first time it includes Scott's extended portraits of the Edinburgh literati which were unaccountably omitted from the printed version.
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Engels
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Verschijningsdatum
januari 2009
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348 pagina's
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Auteur(s)
Sir Walter Scott Walter Scott Henry Rowley Bishop
Redacteur
Jane Milgate
Co-redacteur
Claire Lamont
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Bibliolife

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Guy Mannering (the Astrologer) (Dodo Press)

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9781103099887

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662 g
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Verpakking breedte
156 mm
Verpakking hoogte
234 mm
Verpakking lengte
234 mm

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ca. 1800-1910
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