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Count Robert of Paris
Sir Walter Scott
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Description for Count Robert of Paris
Hardback. This edition of Scott's last full novel, the first to have returned to the manuscript and to the many surviving proofs, realises Scott's original intentions. Editor(s): Alexander, J.H. Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 34. Weight in Grams: 824.
Count Robert of Paris, condemned by Scott's printer as 'altogether a failure', was later prepared for publication by his son-in-law, J. G. Lockhart , and his publisher Robert Cadell. What appeared was a bowdlerised, tamed and tidied version of what Scott had written and dictated. This edition, the first to have returned to the manuscript and to the many surviving proofs, realises Scott's original intentions. Scott's last full novel has many roughnesses, but it also challenges the susceptibilities of his readers more directly than any other and in that lay its fault in the eyes of the lesser men who ... Read more
Count Robert of Paris, condemned by Scott's printer as 'altogether a failure', was later prepared for publication by his son-in-law, J. G. Lockhart , and his publisher Robert Cadell. What appeared was a bowdlerised, tamed and tidied version of what Scott had written and dictated. This edition, the first to have returned to the manuscript and to the many surviving proofs, realises Scott's original intentions. Scott's last full novel has many roughnesses, but it also challenges the susceptibilities of his readers more directly than any other and in that lay its fault in the eyes of the lesser men who ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
608
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Series
Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748605873
SKU
V9780748605873
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About Sir Walter Scott
J. H. Alexander is Reader Emeritus in English at the University of Aberdeen.
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