Guy Mannering
Author(s): Sir Walter Scott
On the auspicious night that Guy Mannering is shown to the house of the Bertrams of Ellengowan, their heir is born and Mannering, a sceptical astrologer, predicts his future. Five years later the prophecy is fulfilled, and Harry Bertram finds himself at the centre of a plot to rob him of his inheritance. Harry's subsequent struggles are set against a background of chaos and upheaval in a socially fragmented land where everyone, from landowners to gypsies, is searching for their rightful place. The text, taken from the authoritative Edinburgh Edition of the Waverly Novels, follows Guy Mannering as it was first published in 1815, with the addition of significant passages from the manuscript that have been omitted from all previous editions. This volume also contains a new critical introduction and a chronology, bibliography, historical and explanatory notes and glossary
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Born and educated in Edinburgh, Walter Scott (1771-1832) is credited with establishing the form of the historical novel. Claire Lamont is Professor of English Romantic Literature at University of Newcastle and series editor for Walter Scott in Penguin Classics. P. D. Garside (editor) is Reader in English at University of Wales, Cardiff. Jane Millgate is Professor of English at Victoria College, University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Walter Scott: The Making of the Novelist.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Australia
- : Penguin Books
- : 0.352
- : 01 May 2003
- : 198mm X 129mm X 21mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Sir Walter Scott
- : Paperback
- : 823.7
- : 512
- : chronology, notes, glossary