The Pirate Walter Scott A&C Black 1901

Description

The Pirate by Sir Walter Scott

No historical figures appear in The Pirate, and there are no historical events, but it is still an historical novel because it dramatises those 'corners of time' where an old era is coming to an end, and a new is beginning. The novel is set in Orkney and Shetland in 1689, and for the northern isles the 'Glorious Revolution' actually means the beginning of the cultural dominance of Scotland and the advent of English power. The plot hinges on an illicit relationship, and is driven by dark men twisted by their criminality, an obsessed woman searching for her lost son, and the murderous rivalry of two young men ' a family tale which illustrates the uses and abuses of traditional lore, as well as Scott's extraordinary grasp of the literature of the north.

Features;

• New Pocket Edition of The Waverley Novels Volume XIII
• Publisher Adam & Charles Black, London;1901
• Green Leather Covers With Gilt Titles and Borders, Full Gilt Page Edges, 478pp +2pp
• Single Frontis Illustration
• Size 165 x 110mm, 450g

Condition: Good – No Dust Jacket, Fading and Rubbing To Spine, No Inscriptions, Good Copy

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