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The Monastery: The Works of Sir Walter Scott
by
Walter Scott
1906. Sir Walter Scott was a master of diverse talents. He was a man of letters, a dedicated historian and historiographer, a well-read translator of foreign texts, and a talented poet. Deriving most of his material from his native Scotland, its history and its legends, Scott invented and mastered what we know today as the historical novel. The central theme of this story ...more
Paperback, 560 pages
Published
March 1st 2004
by Kessinger Publishing
(first published 1820)
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A bit of a confused story with a rather abrupt ending. Set in Elizabethan times in the border lands just inside Scotland we follow two families and the senior monks caught up in family, political and religious quarrels. It's also a ghost story as a white lady appears from time to time and stirs up fear and distrust. There are some good bits of narrative and I got quite excited by certain episodes - however there were too many asides - mainly attempts to assert the veracity of the text. For Scott...more
This book is a typical Walter Scott novel, focusing on a Scottish monastery at the time of the Reformation. It is written in Scott's trademark swashbuckling style, but is not up to the level of many of his other novels. I think the fact that he doesn't use stock characters or base the story (at least in part) on folktales hurts the overall book.
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Sir Walter Scott was born on August 15, 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Scott 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 ...more
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Sir Walter Scott was born on August 15, 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Scott 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 ...more
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