Waverley

Waverley PDF Author: Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 604

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Waverley

Waverley PDF Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 604

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Waverley Novels

Waverley Novels PDF Author: Sir Walter Scott
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9780461004960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 574

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This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Rob Roy

Rob Roy PDF Author: Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 686

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Scottish Place Names

Scottish Place Names PDF Author: George Mackay
Publisher: Waverley Books Limited
ISBN: 9781902407876
Category : Gazetteers
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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Containing almost 2000 entries, a history and geography of Scotland. Towns, villages, islands, mountains, lochs and rivers of Scotland.

Sir Walter Scott's Waverley

Sir Walter Scott's Waverley PDF Author: Jenni Calder
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ISBN: 9781910021255
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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New and controversial major redaction of Walter Scott's Waverley, set in Scotland in 1745, the year of the Jacobite uprising.

Welly Boot Broth

Welly Boot Broth PDF Author: Mark Mechan; Mark Mechan; Waverley Books
Publisher: Waverley Books Limited
ISBN: 9781849345415
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Mein Rant

Mein Rant PDF Author: R. F. Patterson
Publisher: Waverley Books Limited
ISBN: 9781849340021
Category : Verse satire, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Much of German propaganda was sinister, especially in the portrayal of Jewish citizens. American propaganda was cautionary and dark. British propaganda, on the other hand, was that the righteous should prevail and that those in the wrong - be they errant schoolboys, bullies, or robbers, or even wartime leaders, should always fail. Rubbishing the enemy, assassinating nasty characters with humorous methods, was a technique people learned from comics. Britain was expert in this area. So enter Heath Robinson, and R F Paterson's Mein Rant, which we reproduce in this book, with a new introduction by leading comic archivist, Morris Heggie. Mein Rant is a clever and funny satire of Hitler's Mein Kampf, illustrated by Heath Robinson. Today, and since World War One, Heath Robinson's name has been used to describe absurdly complicated inventions that achieved very simple results. Here his work is used to great impact. Mein Kampf ('My Struggle'), Hitler's autobiography, was published in two volumes in 1925 and 1926 which Hitler wrote in Landsberg Prison, and R F Paterson said of it: Mein Kampf had neither rhyme nor reason, while my abridgement undoubtedly has rhyme. 'A conversion of Hitler's Mein Kampf to a delightful and pungent verse-satire. The result is an absolute triumph of the Comic Muse over intractable, almost hopeless material'.

The Heart of Midlothian

The Heart of Midlothian PDF Author: Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 598

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Scott's Shadow

Scott's Shadow PDF Author: Ian Duncan
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400884306
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Scott's Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh rivaled London as a center for literary and cultural innovation. Ian Duncan shows how Walter Scott became the central figure in these developments, and how he helped redefine the novel as the principal modern genre for the representation of national historical life. Duncan traces the rise of a cultural nationalist ideology and the ascendancy of Scott's Waverley novels in the years after Waterloo. He argues that the key to Scott's achievement and its unprecedented impact was the actualization of a realist aesthetic of fiction, one that offered a socializing model of the imagination as first theorized by Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume. This aesthetic, Duncan contends, provides a powerful novelistic alternative to the Kantian-Coleridgean account of the imagination that has been taken as normative for British Romanticism since the early twentieth century. Duncan goes on to examine in detail how other Scottish writers inspired by Scott's innovations--James Hogg and John Galt in particular--produced in their own novels and tales rival accounts of regional, national, and imperial history. Scott's Shadow illuminates a major but neglected episode of British Romanticism as well as a pivotal moment in the history and development of the novel.

Tartan

Tartan PDF Author: Hugh Cheape
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Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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"Hugh Cheape, Head of the Scottish Material Culture Research Centre at the National Museums of Scotland, explores the story of tartan from the medieval love of display to the Victorian invention of exclusive clan identity. With the spotlight also thrown on Bonnie Prince Charlie's kilt and 'ancient' tartans, the history of the Highlands and its society is brought vividly to life. A revised edition of a classic text, this book contains a full-colour section on clan tartans, with useful historical information to find our more about your own tartan, and family history and genealogy."--BOOK JACKET.