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PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9780140436563

RRP: £12.99

PAGES: 400

PUBLICATION DATE:
September 28, 2000

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The Bride of Lammermoor

Sir Walter Scott

Claire Lamont

J.H. Alexander

Kathryn Sutherland

This is a story of national change and personal tragedy. For Lucy Ashton and Edgar Ravenswood, acts of heroism are thwarted and love is doomed by social, political and historical division. This edition restores the action to the years of uncertainty and political flux before the Union of Scotland and England in 1707, rather than after, as Scott’s later revision had placed it.

Sir Walter Scott

Born and educated in Edinburgh, Walter Scott (1771-1832) 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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