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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Sir Walter Scott Peter Garside. PENGUIN CLASSICS GUY MANNERING WALTER SCOTT was born in Edinburgh in 1771 , educated at the High School and University there , and admitted to the Scottish Bar in 1792 . From 1799 until his death he was ...
Sir Walter Scott Peter Garside. PENGUIN CLASSICS GUY MANNERING WALTER SCOTT was born in Edinburgh in 1771 , educated at the High School and University there , and admitted to the Scottish Bar in 1792 . From 1799 until his death he was ...
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... Scott died in September 1832 ; his creditors were finally paid in full in 1833 from the proceeds of his writing ... Scott : The Making of the Novelist ( 1984 ) , Scott's Last Edition : A Study in Publishing History ( 1987 ) , and of ...
... Scott died in September 1832 ; his creditors were finally paid in full in 1833 from the proceeds of his writing ... Scott : The Making of the Novelist ( 1984 ) , Scott's Last Edition : A Study in Publishing History ( 1987 ) , and of ...
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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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