Walter Scott

The Highland Widow (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On a Highland tour intended to soothe agitated spirits, Mrs. Bethune Baliol encounters, amid scenery of stark and startling beauty, the forbidding figure of Elspat MacTavish, living in punishing style in a decrepit and solitary hut. Her curiosity piqued, she learns the tragic tale of the once beautiful and happy wife of the heroic MacTavish Mhor, brought to ruin by her own fierce patriotism and jealous passions. Taken from Chronicles of the Canongate, the first work published by Scott under his own name, The Highland Widow has been said to have established the form of the short story. Written with the boldness characteristic of the famed 'Author of Waverley,' it sees Scott examining issues of national pride and personal failings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hesperus Press Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 90
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781843913351
• Artikelnr.: 72843474

Autorenporträt

Sir Walter Scott was a prolific writer of both poetry and fiction and is best known for the novels Waverley, Rob Roy, and Ivanhoe. Now recognised as one of Scotland's most influential authors, he frequently explored themes of Scottish national identity in his work. Although he achieved great success both as an author and in the legal profession, he was plagued throughout his life by financial difficulties, and often wrote under the pen name 'The Author of Waverley'.