Rob Roy (Collins Classics) - Softcover

Scott, Sir Walter

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9780007449866: Rob Roy (Collins Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0007449860 ISBN 13: 9780007449866

Publisher: William Collins, 2012

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‘Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.’

Set just before the Jacobite Rising in 1715, Scott drew upon the political and economic struggles leading up to the rebellion and the tumultuous history of the Highlands in his classic adventure novel Rob Roy. Despite the book’s title, Frank Osbaldistone is the protagonist, travelling through England and the Scottish Highlands to collect a debt owed to his father by his cousin Rashleigh. On his journey he comes across the mysterious and striking Rob Roy, the infamous yet hunted outlaw. A story about justice, love and the harsh realities of 18th-century Highland life, Scott’s work is still viewed as the ultimate historical adventure novel.

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"When I think of "Rob Roy I am impatient with all other novels."--Robert Louis Stevenson

"When I think of "Rob Roy" I am impatient with all other novels."--Robert Louis Stevenson

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Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott helped to popularise the historical novel as a literary genre, paving the way for others with his much loved succession of hugely popular books, including Ivanhoe, Rob Roy and Waverly.

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