Sir Walter Scott (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781162639444)

""Sir Walter Scott"" by Andrew Lang is a biography of the famous Scottish author, poet, and historian. It delves into Scott's life and career, exploring his early years, his rise to literary fame, and his enduring legacy. Lang examines Scott's literary works, including his novels, poems, and historical writings, and discusses their impact on Scottish culture and identity. The book also explores Scott's personal life, including his relationships with family, friends, and colleagues, and sheds light on his interests and hobbies, such as his love of nature and his passion for collecting books and artifacts. Overall, ""Sir Walter Scott"" is a comprehensive and insightful portrait of one of Scotland's most beloved literary figures.1906. While best known for his translations of classical literature and as a collector of folk and fairy tales, Lang also wrote poetry, biographies, histories, novels, literary criticisms and even children's books. This is his biography on Sir Walter Scott, who created and popularized historical novels in a series called the Waverley Novels. In his novels Scott arranged the plots and characters so the reader enters into the lives of both great and ordinary people caught up in violent, dramatic changes in history. All of his novels were published anonymously until after the financial crash of 1825-26 when the author's anonymity was destroyed. Though the novels were all published without his name they were grouped into various series including By The Author of Waverley; two appeared under the title Tales From Benedictine Sources, another two as Tales of the Crusaders, and four as Chronicles of the Canongate. The remainder of Scott's novels were published under the heading Tales of my Landlord. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Author: Andrew Lang
ISBN-10: 116263944X
ISBN-13: 9781162639444
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Language: English
Published: 09/10/2010
Pages: 284
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d