If all reading mankind had time to read Lockhart’s Life of Scott, a brief volume on Sir Walter would be a thing without excuse. The author still has tried to compress as much as possible of the essence of Lockhart’s great book into this space, with a few additions from other sources.
Contents:
Preface
Chapter I – Ancestry, Childhood, Youth, First Love, Marriage
Chapter Ii – Early Married Life, Ballad Collecting, Lay Of The Last Minstrel, Marmion
Chapter Iii – Quarterly Review, Lady Of The Lake, Rokeby, Ballantyne Affairs
Chapter Iv – The Waverley Novels
Chapter V – Guy Mannering To Kenilworth
Chapter Vi – Novels, Financial Ruin, Death
Conclusion
This book is annotated with a rare extensive biographical sketch of the author, Andrew Lang, written by Sir Edmund Gosse, CB, a contemporary poet and writer.
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