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The Journal of Sir Walter Scott
About this book
This edition of the great Scottish author's personal journal is "truly a classic . . . compelling right to the very last unfinished sentence" (
Scotland on Sunday, UK).
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The celebrated 18th and 19th century Scottish author of such classics as Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, and The Lady of the Lake delivers what many regard as his greatest work: a day-to-day account of the last six years of his life as he navigates financial ruin, bereavement, and increasing ill health. Laboring to pay off debts of more than £120,000, Scott emerges, not simply as a great writer, but as an almost heroic figure whose generosity and even temper shine through at all times.
This edition of Scott's journals presents a complete edited text and notes drawing on a wealth of other material including correspondence, reminiscences and the memoirs of Scott's contemporaries. It remains one of the standards by which Scott scholarship is judged.
"Scott's Journal is a hugely important piece of Scottish, and indeed European literature, published here with an incisive introduction, brilliantly judicious annotation and appendices and an excellent index . . . Walter Scott has never been so readable." — The Herald, UK
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The celebrated 18th and 19th century Scottish author of such classics as Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, and The Lady of the Lake delivers what many regard as his greatest work: a day-to-day account of the last six years of his life as he navigates financial ruin, bereavement, and increasing ill health. Laboring to pay off debts of more than £120,000, Scott emerges, not simply as a great writer, but as an almost heroic figure whose generosity and even temper shine through at all times.
This edition of Scott's journals presents a complete edited text and notes drawing on a wealth of other material including correspondence, reminiscences and the memoirs of Scott's contemporaries. It remains one of the standards by which Scott scholarship is judged.
"Scott's Journal is a hugely important piece of Scottish, and indeed European literature, published here with an incisive introduction, brilliantly judicious annotation and appendices and an excellent index . . . Walter Scott has never been so readable." — The Herald, UK
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Preface
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations Used by Scott
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes
- Introduction
- The Events of the Journal
- SIR WALTER SCOTT BART of Abbotsford HIS. GURNAL* Vol. I.
- Appendix A: Chronology of the Life of Sir Walter Scott
- Appendix B: Country Houses of the Journal and their Owners
- Appendix C: Edinburgh Addresses
- Appendix D: Politics in the Journal
- Appendix E: Dating
- Appendix F
- Appendix G
- Index
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Copyright