The Tale of Old Mortality

von Walter Scott

522 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The Tale of Old Mortality describes the lives - and often violent deaths - the hopes, and the struggles, of the Covenanters in late seventeenth-century Scotland. A tale of extremism, bigotry and cruelty, it is redeemed by its characters' courage and loyalty, and their passionate belief in religious and civil liberty. Considered to be one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century, its influence pervades European writing from Stendhal to Tolstoy.

• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre Allgemein und literarisch
• ISBN: 9780748604432
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.1993
• Größe: 218 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Herausgegeben von: Douglas S Mack