![9780748605859-0748605851-The Fair Maid of Perth](https://booksrun.com/image-loader/215/https:__m.media-amazon.com_images_I_41QLSq1LpbL._SL500_.jpg)
The Fair Maid of Perth
ISBN-13:
9780748605859
ISBN-10:
0748605851
Author:
Walter Scott, Andrew Hook, D. MacKenzie
Publication date:
2000
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Format:
Hardcover
532 pages
FREE US shipping
Book details
ISBN-13:
9780748605859
ISBN-10:
0748605851
Author:
Walter Scott, Andrew Hook, D. MacKenzie
Publication date:
2000
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Format:
Hardcover
532 pages
Summary
The Fair Maid of Perth (ISBN-13: 9780748605859 and ISBN-10: 0748605851), written by authors
Walter Scott, Andrew Hook, D. MacKenzie, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2000.
With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other
books. You can easily purchase or rent The Fair Maid of Perth (Hardcover) from BooksRun,
along with many other new and used
books
and textbooks.
And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.
Description
Find Out What Scott Really WroteGoing back to the original manuscripts, a team of scholars has uncovered what Scott originally wrote and intended his public to read before errors, misreadings and expurgations crept in during production. The Fair Maid of Perth centres on the merchant classes of Perth in the fourteenth century, and their commitment to the pacific values of trade, in a bloody and brutal era in which no right to life is recognised, in which the Scottish nobles fight for control of the weak Scottish monarchy, and clans are prepared to extinguish each other to gain supremacy in the central Highlands. It is a remarkable novel, in part because late in his career Scott has a new subject, and in part because he employs a spare narrative style that is without parallel in the rest of his oeuvre. Far too many critics, from his son-in-law J.G. Lockhart to the present day, have written off late Scott, and seen his last works as evidence of failing powers. Readers of the Edinburgh Edition of The
We would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book
Book review
Congratulations! We have received your book review.
{user}
{createdAt}
by {truncated_author}