Walter Scott: His Life and Personality - Softcover

Pearson, Hesketh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241120055 ISBN 13: 9780241120057

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 1987

Synopsis

This is a portrait of a man whose life was more extraordinary than his novels. As a child he suffered from infantile paralysis, as a young man he experienced a tragic love affair, in middle age he endured prolonged illness and in old age financial ruin. Yet despite his difficult life Walter Scott became the first bestselling novelist, poet and historian. Hesketh Pearson's study is of a unique man who was both great and good. AUTHBIO: Hesketh Pearson was an actor before becoming a biographer. His first book, Modern Men and Manners, was published in 1921 and contained portraits of the theatre personalities of the time. His many subjects have included Gilbert and Sullivan, George Bernard Shaw, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Dickens and Whistler. Hesketh Pearson was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241120055
• ISBN 13: 9780241120057
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308