Old Mortality
Old Mortality (1816), which many consider the finest of Scott's Waverley novels, is a swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland, in the period infamous as the `killing time'. Its central character, Henry Morton, joins the rebels in order to fight Scotland's royalist oppressors, little as he shares the Covenanters' extreme religious beliefs. He istorn between his love for a royalist's granddaughter and his loyalty to his downtrodden countrymen.As well as being a tale of divided loyalties, the novel is a crucial document in the cultural history…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-161143-8
- EAN: 9780191611438
- Produktnummer: 13996264
- Verlag: Oup Oxford
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 624 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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