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The Fair Maid of Perth by Walter Scott; Andrew Hook; D. MacKenzie is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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## Find Out What Scott Really Wrote Going back to the original manuscripts, a team of scholars has uncovered what Scott originally wrote and intended his public to read before errors, misreadings and expurgations crept in during production. ## The Edinburgh Edition offers you: * A clean, corrected text * Textual histories * Explanatory notes * Verbal changes from the first-edition text * Full glossaries ## Title Description **The Fair Maid of Perth** centres on the merchant classes of Perth in the fourteenth century, and their commitment to the pacific values of trade, in a bloody and brutal era in which no right to life is recognised, in which the Scottish nobles fight for control of the weak Scottish monarchy, and clans are prepared to extinguish each other to gain supremacy in the central Highlands. It is a remarkable novel, in part because late in his career Scott has a new subject, and in part because he employs a spare narrative style that is without parallel in the rest of his oeuvre. Far too many critics, from his son-in-law J.G. Lockhart to the present day, have written off late Scott, and seen his last works as evidence of failing powers. Readers of the Edinburgh Edition

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Author

Walter Scott; Andrew Hook; D. MacKenzie

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474433501

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.85 / 5 (96 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14