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Rob Roy
Rob Roy
Rob Roy
Rob Roy
Rob Roy
Rob Roy
Rob Roy
Rob Roy

Rob Roy

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Product Code:
1745-01
ISBN
978-619-152-904-9
SKU
17.0059
Year
12-09-2016
Translation
from English: Teodora Atanasova
Pages
368
Size
170/240 мм
Weight
0.56 kg
Collection
Колекция "Върхове"
Cover Type
Hardcover
Genre
Historical Fiction, Classics, Adventure Novels

Walter Scott

Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (1771–1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature. Famous titles include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Old Mortality, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor. Although primarily remembered for his extensive lite…

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From its first publication in 1816, Rob Roy has been recognized as containing some of Scott s finest writing and most engaging, fully realized characters. The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor was already a legendary, disputed figure by the time Scott wrote a heroic Scottish Robin Hood to some, an over-glamorized, unprincipled predator to others. Scott approaches Rob Roy indirectly, through the adventures of his fictional hero, Frank Osbaldistone, amid the political turmoil of England and Scotland in 1715. With characteristic care, Scott reconstructs the period and settings so as to place Rob Roy and the Scotland he inhabits amid conflicting moral, economic and historical forces. This edition features, besides a new critical introduction and extensive explanatory notes, an essay outlining clearly the novels historical context and a glossary of Scottish words and phrases used by Scotts colorful, vernacular characters.

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