Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott (English) Hardcover Book

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A Superb historical novel set in the late seventeenth century, Rob Roy is also an adventure story. In his tragic portrait of Rob Roy MacGregor, he shows the feudal world of the Highlands withering away under the onslaught of new commercial and political realities.

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A Superb historical novel set in the late seventeenth century, Rob Roy is also an adventure story. Using his favourite device of contrasting characters and places, Scott sets romantic rural Scotland against the prosaic cities of Glasgow and London. In his tragic portrait of Rob Roy MacGregor, he shows the feudal world of the Highlands withering away under the onslaught of new commercial and political realities. With his own sympathies equally balanced, he is perfectly quipped to portray the struggle between them. Rob Roy will be a major United Artists film for release in the summer of 1995. Directed by Michael Caton Jones, it stars Liam Neeson, John Hurt, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth and Eric Stolpz.

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A film version starring Liam Neeson, John Hurt, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth and Eric Stolz is to be released in the summer.

Author Biography

Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh on 15 August 1777. He was educated in Edinburgh and called to the bar in 1792, succeeding his father as Writer to the Signet, then Clerk of Session. He published anonymous translations of German Romantic poetry from 1797, in which year he also married. In 1805 he published his first major work, a romantic poem called The Lay of the Last Minstrel, became a partner in a printing business, and several other long poems followed, including Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810). These poems found acclaim and great popularity, but from 1814 and the publication of Waverley, Scott turned almost exclusively to novel-writing, albeit anonymously. A hugely prolific period of writing produced over twenty-five novels, including Rob Roy (1817), The Heart of Midlothian (1818), The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), Kenilworth (1821) and Redgauntlet (1824). Already sheriff-depute of Selkirkshire, Scott was created a baronet in 1820. The printing business in which Scott was a partner ran into financial difficulties in 1826, and Scott devoted his energies to work in order to repay the firm's creditors, publishing many more novels, dramatic works, histories and a life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Sir Walter Scott died on 21 September 1832 at Abbotsford, the home he had built on the Scottish Borders.

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Gift edition of the famous story of Rob Roy MacGregor set in rural Scotland in the 17th Century. A romantic adventure, thrilling and poignant.

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Gift edition of the famous story of Rob Roy MacGregor set in rural Scotland in the 17th Century. A romantic adventure, thrilling and poignant.

Details ISBN1857152107 Pages 494 Year 1995 ISBN-10 1857152107 ISBN-13 9781857152104 Format Hardcover Imprint Everyman's Library Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.7 Author Walter Scott Publisher Everyman Media Book Publication Date 1995-05-25 Language English UK Release Date 1995-05-25 AU Release Date 1995-05-25 NZ Release Date 1995-05-25 Series Everyman's Library CLASSICS Narrator Susan McInearny Illustrator Stephen Gooden Birth 1939 Affiliation Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Bipolar Clinic and Reseach Program, Massachusetts General Hospital Position Associate Professor of Psychiatry Qualifications Ph.D. Audience General We've got this

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