The Heart of Midlothian (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Scott, Sir Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140431292 ISBN 13: 9780140431292

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1994

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Penguin Books, 1994. 793 S., kart.

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Jeanie Deans, a dairymaid, decides she must walk to London to gain an audience with the Queen. Her sister is to be executed for infanticide and, while refusing to lie to help her case, Jeanie is desperate for a reprieve. Set in the 1730s in a Scotland uneasily united with England, The Heart of Mid-Lothian dramatizes different kinds of justice - that meted out by the Edinburgh mob in the lynching of Captain Porteous, and that encountered by a terrified young girl suspected of killing her baby. Based on an anonymous letter Scot received in 1817, this is the seventh and finest of Scott's 'Waverley' novels. It was an international bestseller and inspired succeeding novelists from Balzac to George Eliot.

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Edited with an introduction and notes by Tony Inglis

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140431292
• ISBN 13: 9780140431292
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 864
• Herausgeber: Inglis Tony