Richard Holt Hutton

Sir Walter Scott

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Produktbeschreibung

A biography of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), published in the first series of 'English Men of Letters' in 1878.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 247g
• ISBN-13: 9781108034678
• ISBN-10: 1108034675
• Artikelnr.: 34754758

Inhaltsangabe

Prefatory note
1. Ancestry, parentage, and childhood
2. Youth - choice of a profession
3. Love and marriage
4. Earliest poetry and Border Ministrelsy
5. Scott's maturer poems
6. Companions and friends
7. First country homes
8. Removal to Abbotsford, and life there
9. Scott's partnerships with the Ballantynes
10. The Waverley novels
11. Scott's morality and religion
12. Distractions and amusements at Abbotsford
13. Scott and George IV
14. Scott as a politician
15. Scott in adversity
16. The last year
17. The end of the struggle.