The Antiquary

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The Antiquary

The Antiquary written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Antiquities categories.

The Antiquary

The Antiquary written by Walter Scott and has been published by Edinburgh Edition of the Waver this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Fiction categories.

The third of Sir Walter Scott's acclaimed Waverley Novels, a series that included Rob Roy and Ivanhoe, The Antiquary is set in Scotland in the last years of the eighteenth century and centers around Jonathan Oldbuck, the antiquary, the closest to a self-portrait of any of Scott's characters. The passionate lover, a familiar character to readers of Sir Walter Scott, is here represented by Lovell, who relentlessly pursues the woman he hopes to marry. The antiquary is a constant commentator on the characters and their actions, always at hand to provide his opinionated version of the story. While the reader may be swept up in the exciting plot, The Antiquary is a book that is not to be hurried; it has come to be appreciated for its rich description of a bygone age. This fine new edition of the book, restoring the original version drawn directly from Scott's manuscript, is accompanied by a critical essay, as well as annotations and a comprehensive glossary by a prominent scholar in the field.

The Novels And Poems Of Sir Walter Scott The Antiquary

The Novels And Poems Of Sir Walter Scott The Antiquary written by Walter Scott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with categories.

The Antiquary The Black Dwarf Old Mortality

The Antiquary The Black Dwarf Old Mortality written by Walter Scott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with categories.

Waverley Novels The Antiquary

Waverley Novels The Antiquary written by Walter Scott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with categories.

Waverley Guy Mannering The Antiquary Rob Roy Old Mortality The Black Dwarf A Legend Of Montrose The Bride Of Lammermoor

Waverley Guy Mannering The Antiquary Rob Roy Old Mortality The Black Dwarf A Legend Of Montrose The Bride Of Lammermoor written by Walter Scott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with categories.

The Antiquary

The Antiquary written by Daniel Terry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1829 with Musicals categories.

The Antiquary

The Antiquary written by Sir Walter Scott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with categories.

The Antiquarian

The Antiquarian written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with Archaeology categories.

The Antiquary Complete

The Antiquary Complete written by Walter Scott and has been published by VM eBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-27 with Fiction categories.

VOLUME ONE I knew Anselmo. He was shrewd and prudent, Wisdom and cunning had their shares of him; But he was shrewish as a wayward child, And pleased again by toys which childhood please; As—-book of fables, graced with print of wood, Or else the jingling of a rusty medal, Or the rare melody of some old ditty, That first was sung to please King Pepin's cradle INTRODUCTION The present work completes a series of fictitious narratives, intended to illustrate the manners of Scotland at three different periods. Waverleyembraced the age of our fathers, Guy Mannering that of our own youth, and the Antiquary refers to the last ten years of the eighteenth century. I have, in the two last narratives especially, sought my principal personages in the class of society who are the last to feel the influence of that general polish which assimilates to each other the manners of different nations. Among the same class I have placed some of the scenes in which I have endeavoured to illustrate the operation of the higher and more violent passions; both because the lower orders are less restrained by the habit of suppressing their feelings, and because I agree, with my friend Wordsworth, that they seldom fail to express them in the strongest and most powerful language. This is, I think, peculiarly the case with the peasantry of my own country, a class with whom I have long been familiar. The antique force and simplicity of their language, often tinctured with the Oriental eloquence of Scripture, in the mouths of those of an elevated understanding, give pathos to their grief, and dignity to their resentment. I have been more solicitous to describe manners minutely than to arrange in any case an artificial and combined narrative, and have but to regret that I felt myself unable to unite these two requisites of a good Novel. The knavery of the adept in the following sheets may appear forced and improbable; but we have had very late instances of the force of superstitious credulity to a much greater extent, and the reader may be assured, that this part of the narrative is founded on a fact of actual occurrence.