Rob Roy

Walter Scott

• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9783749433520
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Historical Fiction
• Index: Literature

No introduction can be more appropriate to the work than some account of the singular character whose name is given to the title-page, and who, through good report and bad report, has maintained a wonderful degree of importance in popular recollection. This cannot be ascribed to the distinction of his birth, which, though that of a gentleman, had in it nothing of high destination, and gave him little right to command in his clan. Neither, though he lived a busy, restless, and enterprising life, were his feats equal to those of other freebooters, who have been less distinguished. He owed his fame in a great measure to his residing on the very verge of the Highlands, and playing such pranks in the beginning of the 18th century, as are usually ascribed to Robin Hood in the middle ages, -and that within forty miles of Glasgow, a great commercial city, the seat of a learned university. Thus a character like his, blending the wild virtues, the subtle policy, and unrestrained license of an American Indian, was flourishing in Scotland during the Augustan age of Queen Anne and George I. Addison, it is probable, or Pope, would have been considerably surprised if they had known that there existed in the same island with them a personage of Rob Roy's peculiar habits and profession.

Table of contents

• Rob Roy
• VOLUME ONE
• INTRODUCTION
• APPENDIX TO INTRODUCTION.
• CHAPTER FIRST.
• CHAPTER SECOND.
• CHAPTER THIRD.
• CHAPTER FOURTH.
• CHAPTER FIFTH.
• CHAPTER SIXTH.
• CHAPTER SEVENTH.
• CHAPTER EIGHTH.
• CHAPTER NINTH.
• CHAPTER TENTH.
• CHAPTER ELEVENTH.
• CHAPTER TWELFTH.
• CHAPTER THIRTEENTH.
• CHAPTER FOURTEENTH.
• CHAPTER FIFTEENTH.
• CHAPTER SIXTEENTH.
• CHAPTER SEVENTEENTH.
• VOLUME TWO
• CHAPTER FIRST
• CHAPTER SECOND.
• CHAPTER THIRD.
• CHAPTER FOURTH.
• CHAPTER FIFTH.
• CHAPTER SIXTH.
• CHAPTER SEVENTH.
• CHAPTER EIGHTH.
• CHAPTER NINTH.
• CHAPTER TENTH.
• CHAPTER ELEVENTH.
• CHAPTER TWELFTH.
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN.
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN.
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN.
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN.
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN.
• CHAPTER EIGHTEENTH.
• CHAPTER NINETEENTH.
• CHAPTER TWENTIETH.
• CHAPTER TWENTY-FIRST.
• CHAPTER TWENTY-SECOND.
• NOTES TO ROB ROY.
• Copyright