Waverley

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

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Waverley

Waverley PDF Author: Walter Scott
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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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Category :
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.

Chronicles of the Canongate

Chronicles of the Canongate PDF Author: Scott
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Set within a framing narrative, these three stories take place in the years following the Jacobite defeat and feature characters who are leaving Scotland to seek their fortunes elsewhere. In two of Walter Scott's best-known tales, "The Highland Widow" and "The Two Drovers," two young men are torn between traditional Scottish loyalties and the opportunities offered by England. "The Surgeon's Daughter" follows three young Scots to India during the first years of the British Empire. All three highlight Scott's unique gift for re-creating the spirit of historical eras and painting stirring portraits of Scottish people.

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.

Subversive Scott

Subversive Scott PDF Author: Julian Meldon D'Arcy
Publisher: University of Iceland Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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For the last fifty years or so the standard critical view of Sir Walter Scott's fiction has been that, while paying full tribute to Scotland's heroic, ancient independence and romantic Jacobite past, his Scottish Waverley Novels ultimately present Scotland's future as nonetheless belonging within the peace, prosperity and progress of the United Kingdom and the British Empire. Julian Meldon D'Arcy's Subversive Scott radically revises this conventional evaluation of Scott's work and reveals that embedded in the Waverley Novels narratives are dissonant discourses and discreet subtexts which inspire far more subversive readings than hitherto perceived. Indeed, D'Arcy argues, there is considerable evidence in Scott's work to corroborate a claim that, despite his apparently politically correct fiction and lifestyle, his Waverley Novels contain undetected and underrated manifestations of Scottish nationalism which not only invoke sharp criticism of both the Union and English imperial policy, but also reveal his passionate concern, as a true Scotsman, with the issues of Scotland's national identity, dignity, and independence. Given the re-establishment of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, and Scotland's resurgent sense of political identity and relevance, D'Arcy's re-evaluation of the Waverley Novels is thus a fresh, timely and stimulating contribution to the study of Sir Walter Scott's fiction and politics.

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'.

Tartan

Tartan PDF Author: Hugh Cheape
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ISBN:
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.