"Chronicles of the Canongate" (Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels) - Hardcover

Scott, Walter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748605843 ISBN 13: 9780748605842

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Chronicles of the Canongate is unique among Scott's works as it is his only collection of shorter fiction. It contains his best-known tales, 'The Highland Widow' and 'The Two Drovers', and a third, less well known but of startling originality, 'The Surgeon's Daughter'. The three are set within the framing narrative of Chrystal Croftangry, an old bankrupt with pretensions to literature, who must inevitably be seen as a portrait of the artist facing up to his own insolvency in 1826.Tales in a framework have a long ancestry in European and Oriental literature, and in Chronicles of the Canongate Scott adapts the genre with consummate skill. Each of the stories and Croftangry's narrative may be read independently, but together they constitute a themed work in which the narrator treats of the cultural conflicts in the new Britain and its growing empire in the thirty years from 1756.This edition of Chronicles of the Canongate recovers a truly inventive work which is here republished in its original form for only the second time since Scott's death in 1832.

About this title

About the Authors

Sir Walter Scott, was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. Many of his works remain classics and include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor.

Claire Lamont is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Newcastle.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748605843
• ISBN 13: 9780748605842
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 516
• Editor: Lamont Claire