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Product Identifiers

PublisherEdinburgh University Press

ISBN-100748605886

ISBN-139780748605880

eBay Product ID (ePID)102841803

Product Key Features

Book TitleCastle Dangerous

Number of Pages480 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicClassics, Literary

Publication Year2006

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorWalter Scott

Book SeriesEdinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels Eup Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight23.7 Oz

Item Length5.7 in

Item Width8.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2006-497877

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal823.77

SynopsisCastle Dangerous is the realisation of a thirty-year old project of Scott's to retell a story found in Barbour's Brus., Count Robert of Paris, condemned by Scott's printer as 'altogether a failure', was later prepared for publication by his son-in-law, J. G. Lockhart, and his publisher Robert Cadell. What appeared was a bowdlerised, tamed and tidied version of what Scott had written and dictated. This edition, the first to have returned to the manuscript and to the many surviving proofs, realises Scott's original intentions. Scott's last full novel has many roughnesses, but it also challenges the susceptibilities of his readers more directly than any other and in that lay its fault in the eyes of the lesser men who condemned it., Castle Dangerous is the realisation of a thirty-year old project of Scott's to retell a story found in Barbour's Brus . Set in the early fourteenth century during the Scottish Wars of Independence, an English knight for a love wager commits himself to defend Douglas Castle against Scottish attempts to retake it. The ballad-like story embraces intriguing elements including national rivalry, and the idealisation and betrayal of love. The Douglas area, seen as an almost surrealist landscape of ravines, trenches, and tombs, and in abysmal weather, forms an appropriate setting for an impressively bleak narrative., Count Robert of Paris, condemned by Scott's printer as 'altogether a failure', was later prepared for publication by his son-in-law, J. G. Lockhart , and his publisher Robert Cadell. What appeared was a bowdlerised, tamed and tidied version of what Scott had written and dictated. This edition, the first to have returned to the manuscript and to the many surviving proofs, realises Scott's original intentions. Scott's last full novel has many roughnesses, but it also challenges the susceptibilities of his readers more directly than any other and in that lay its fault in the eyes of the lesser men who condemned it.

LC Classification NumberPR5317