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The Bride of Lammermoor

The Bride of Lammermoor Paperback - 2001

by Walter Scott

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  • Title The Bride of Lammermoor
  • Author Walter Scott
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 346
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group
  • Date 2001
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0140436561I5N00
  • ISBN 9780140436563 / 0140436561
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5.1 x 1 in (19.56 x 12.95 x 2.54 cm)
  • Reading level 1560
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Psychological fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001276363
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

Less sprawling than most of Scott's novels, "lean and tragic" (E. M. Forster), but still boasting his characteristic humor and wisdom, The Bride of Lammermoor (1819) brings to vivid life a historical incident from his own family lore and from Scotland's turbulent past.

From the publisher

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.

About the author

Walter Scott (1771-1832) was born and educated in Edinburgh. He published several volumes of poetry and turned down the offer of the laureateship before concentrating on fiction. He is credited with establishing the form of the historical novel.

Kathryn Sutherland is a reader in English at St Anne's College, Oxford.

Claire Lamont, advisory editor, is senior lecturer in English at the University of Newcastle.

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