Tale of Old Mortality: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, Vol 4b - Hardcover

Scott, W

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9780231084703: Tale of Old Mortality: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, Vol 4b

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ISBN 10: 0231084706 ISBN 13: 9780231084703

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1993

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Scott's famous novel of 1816, in the clean, textually authoritative, thoroughly modern, indeed thrilling Edinburgh Edition. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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The Edinburgh Edition respects Scott the artist by 'restoring' versions of the novels that are not quite what his first readers saw. Indeed, it returns to manuscripts that the printers never handled, as Scott's fiction before 1827 was transcribed before it reached the printshop. Each volume of the Edinburgh edition presents an uncluttered text of one work, followed by an Essay on the Text by the editor of the work, a list of the emendations that have been made to the first edition, explanatory notes and a glossary! The editorial essays are histories of the respective texts. Some of them are almost 100 pages long; when they are put together they constitute a fascinating and lucid account of Scott's methods of composition and his financial manoeuvres. This edition is for anyone who takes Scott seriously. The Edinburgh Edition respects Scott the artist by 'restoring' versions of the novels that are not quite what his first readers saw. Indeed, it returns to manuscripts that the printers never handled, as Scott's fiction before 1827 was transcribed before it reached the printshop. Each volume of the Edinburgh edition presents an uncluttered text of one work, followed by an Essay on the Text by the editor of the work, a list of the emendations that have been made to the first edition, explanatory notes and a glossary! The editorial essays are histories of the respective texts. Some of them are almost 100 pages long; when they are put together they constitute a fascinating and lucid account of Scott's methods of composition and his financial manoeuvres. This edition is for anyone who takes Scott seriously.

About the Author:

The late Douglas S. Mack was formerly Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Stirling.

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