Rob Roy
A Fiction, Historical, Classics book. No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must...
With an Introduction and Notes by David Blair. From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realised 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-glamorised, 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 novel's historical context and a glossary of Scottish words and phrases used by Scott's colourful, vernacular characters.
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- Pages: 448 pages
- ISBN: 9781853262531 / 1853262536
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Trade has all the fascination of gambling without its moral guilt. Walter Scott, Rob Roy // I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it. Walter Scott, Rob Roy // No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it. Walter Scott, Rob Roy //
I will without a doubt be the only person to check this book out of the Guabuliga Public Library. After all, I could not understand a good portion of the book, given all the Scottish slang and odd accents, as well as the mass of historical details on which I wasn't all that clear. Now I know a little more about the conflict between... Urrrrgh.I really wanted to like this book a lot more than I did. But I can't in good conscience give it more than three stars from my perspective as a modern reader.I'm not impatient or unappreciative of the classics and I didn't go into an early 19th century historical novel expecting it - or wanting it - to be balls-to-the-wall roaring... I read this because Ivanhoe has been one of my favorite novels for years, and it was about time I got into some more Sir Walter Scott. I wasn't disappointed. In customarily well-wrought prose, Scott's Rob Roy evinces the same spirit of gallantry and reverence for tradition that I loved in Ivanhoe. This time around, however, we're not...
