Guy ManneringOn the auspicious night that Guy Mannering is shown to the house of the Bertrams of Ellengowan, the Bertrams' heir is born, and Mannering, a skeptical astrologer, predicts the child's future. Five years later the prophecy is fulfilled, and the heir, Harry Bertram, becomes the center of a plot to rob the boy of his inheritance. Harry's subsequent struggles are set against a backdrop of chaos and upheaval in a socially fragmented Scotland where everyone, from landowners to gypsies, is searching for their rightful place. |
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... Court of Session in Edinburgh , the supreme Scottish civil court . From 1805 , too , Scott was secretly an investor in , and increasingly controller of , the printing and publishing businesses of his associates , the Ballantyne brothers ...
... Court of Session in Edinburgh , the supreme Scottish civil court . From 1805 , too , Scott was secretly an investor in , and increasingly controller of , the printing and publishing businesses of his associates , the Ballantyne brothers ...
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... Court of the University of Edinburgh , 1999. Editor - in - Chief's Preface and Chronology © David Hewitt , 1998 Introduction copyright © Jane Millgate , 2003 Note on the Text copyright © P. D. Garside , 2003 All rights reserved The ...
... Court of the University of Edinburgh , 1999. Editor - in - Chief's Preface and Chronology © David Hewitt , 1998 Introduction copyright © Jane Millgate , 2003 Note on the Text copyright © P. D. Garside , 2003 All rights reserved The ...
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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | vi |
THE WAVERLEY NOVELS IN PENGUIN | viii |
INTRODUCTION | xi |
CHRONOLOGY OF WALTER SCOTT | xxviii |
FURTHER READING | xxxvii |
A NOTE ON THE TEXT | xl |
GUY MANNERING | 3 |
OR THE ASTROLOGER VOLUME II | 117 |
OR THE ASTROLOGER VOLUME III | 237 |
HISTORICAL NOTE | 356 |
372 | |
GLOSSARY | 439 |
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