Bride of Lammermoor (eBook)

Sir Walter Scott (Autor)

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2017
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-82122-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This installment of Scott's Waverly novels takes place in the early 1700s and tells of a doomed romance between a maiden and her family's sworn enemy. Basis for Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.

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Edgar, the brooding young master of Ravenswood, retains none of his ancestral estates but a crumbling castle. Embittered by the lawsuits that have stripped him of his patrimony and shortened his despairing father's life, he determines to confront Sir William Ashton, the lawyer whose machinations led to the decline of Ravenswood's fortunes. But Edgar's plans take an abrupt turn upon meeting Sir William's lovely daughter, Lucy, and a romance blossoms against the tumultuous backdrop of the two warring families.Sir Walter Scott's immensely popular Waverly novels enthralled readers with their dashing mix of historical fiction, romance, and revenge. This installment, originally published in 1819, takes place in the early 1700s amid Scotland's Lammermuir Hills. Edgar and Lucy's troubled relationship — beset by social, political, and religious barriers — reflects Scotland's struggles in the early 18th century, as the country and its citizens were torn asunder by the Jacobite rebellions. Scott's treatment of the lovers' inexorable destiny unfolds in a gothic atmosphere, punctuated by supernatural elements and symbolic imagery. The inspiration for Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor, this novel remains a compelling example of its author's ability to transmute the effects of historical change into literary art.

Autor

Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) enjoyed great popularity in his own day, and many of his works have withstood the test of time and are regarded as classics: Ivanhoe, Old Mortality, The Lady of the Lake, Waverly, The Heart of Midlothian, and Rob Royas well as The Bride of Lammermore.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.5.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Gewicht: 396 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: 19th-century classics • action adventure • Adventurous • affair • a legend of montrose • ancestral estates • anglicisation • berwickshire • East Lothian • edgar ravenswood • engaging • English • fast castle • fiction scottish literature • highlands story • historical-fiction • historical,historical • inexorable destiny • lammermuir hills • Literary • lively • Love • Lowland • lucia di • lucy ashton • Moors • Nobility • Oral tradition • Page Turner • revenge • Romance • Romantic • royalty • Scotland • scotland's struggles • Scots • Scottish • sir walter scott's waverly novels • tales of my landlord • Tragedy • two warring families • villain • villainess • Waverly • wolf's crag
• ISBN-10: 0-486-82122-6 / 0486821226
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-82122-1 / 9780486821221