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Redgauntlet. Walter Scott. Oxford University Press, Mar 10, 2011 - Fiction - 479 pages. Arguably Scott's finest novel, and the last of his major Scottish novels, Redgauntlet centers around a third, fictitious, Jacobite rebellion set in the summer of 1765. The novel's hero, young Darsie Latimer, is kidnapped by Edward Hugh Redgauntlet, a ...
Nov 10, 2021 · Redgauntlet (1824) is a story about two things trying to come together that can’t, quite, manage to come together. Fittingly it is told in two modes that try and fail to come together ...
Set in the summer of 1765, Redgauntlet centres around a third, fictitious, Jacobite rebellion. Kidnapped by Edward Hugh Redgauntlet, a fanatical supporter of the Stewart cause, the young Darsie Latimer finds himself caught up in the plot to enthrone the exiled Prince Charles Edward Stewart.
Jul 1, 2024 · The Jacobite enthusiasm of the eighteenth century, particularly during the rebellion of 1745, afforded a theme, perhaps the finest that could be selected, for fictitious composition, founded upon real or probable incident. This civil war, and its remarkable events, were remembered by the existing...
Nov 10, 2020 · Addeddate 2020-11-10 23:42:48 Associated-names Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, editor Boxid IA1788707 Camera
Apr 10, 2014 · REDGAUNTLET by WALTER SCOTT. Publication date 1837 Collection europeanlibraries Book from the collections of Oxford University Language English.
Page 96 - Hutcheon had nae will to the wark, but he had stood by Dougal in battle and broil, and he wad not fail him at this pinch; so down the carles sat ower a stoup of brandy, and Hutcheon, who was something of a clerk,, would have read a chapter of the Bible; but Dougal would hear naething but a blaud of Davie Lindsay, whilk was the waur preparation.
