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Castle Dangerous

Castle Dangerous

Scott, Walter
Alexander, J. H.

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels

Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0748605886
ISBN13: 9780748605880
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Nov 23 2006
Pages: 480
Weight: 2.46
Height: 1.11 Width: 5.89 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
Castle Dangerous is the realisation of a thirty-year old project of Scott's to retell a story found in Barbour's Brus. Set in the early fourteenth century during the Scottish Wars of Independence, an English knight for a love wager commits himself to defend Douglas Castle against Scottish attempts to retake it. The ballad-like story embraces intriguing elements including national rivalry, and the idealisation and betrayal of love. The Douglas area, seen as an almost surrealist landscape of ravines, trenches, and tombs, and in abysmal weather, forms an appropriate setting for an impressively bleak narrative.

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