Castle Dangerous Hardback
by Sir Walter Scott
Edited by J. H. Alexander
Part of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels series
Hardback
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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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:23/11/2006
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- ISBN:9780748605880
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:23/11/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780748605880
