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    <body><![CDATA[Seriously gothic fans, listen up: This is your ultimate indulgence. This is ridiculously over the top. The characters actually swish their cloaks and make dark, portentous pronouncements. Wolves really howl at the moon, the dudes really live in broken down castles. Ladies go mad! Men lose their inhe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4632768">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read in an 1897 edition. [These notes were made in 1982:]. This novel should have been a hundred pages longer. It starts and proceeds at Scott's leisurely pace, and about half the main action - the return of Ravenswood, Lucy's attempted murder of Bucklaw, her madness and death, and Ravenswood's deat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72021505">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Bride of Lammermoor is a dark novel about revenge, love, and what happens to those who seek their own happiness in the face of family opposition and ill-fate.  The book is filled with dark omens and the occasional ghost makes an appearance to foreshadow the evil that is to come.  Scott is a Scot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69717032">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Dark omens shadow the romance of Edgar, Master of Ravenwood, and Lucy Ashton, daughter of the man who through force dispossessed the Ravenwood family of their ancestral home. Scott's gothic romance weaves the personal and historic in a tale of love and revenge set amidst the political factionalism of Scotland after the Act of Union of 1707. With a text drawn from the &quot;Magnum&quot; edition of 1830, this annotated edition also includes an appendix on relevant Scottish history and a glossary of Scots words and legal terminology.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Scott really is a masterful novelist.  If, like me, your knowledge of this tale originates in Donizetti's opera, you will be fascinated by the job of his librettists! They managed to plumb the psychological depths of the story even as they did away with 90% of the characters and plot. The recognizab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66578730">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Less sprawling than most of Scott's novels, &quot;lean and tragic&quot; (E. M. Forster), but still boasting his characteristic humor and wisdom, <em>The Bride of Lammermoor</em> (1819) brings to vivid life a historical incident from his own family lore and from Scotland's turbulent past.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Une sombre histoire en plein milieu de l’Écosse, voilà qui a tout pour plaire. Je n’avais jamais lu Walter Scott, c’est donc une première pour moi. L’histoire est assez simple, pour ne pas dire rudimentaire. Un jeune héritier ruiné fait voeu de venger sa famille déchue et dépouillée ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23055616">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[While the novel's focus occasionally seems a little off (most readers, I imagine, would be far more interested in the the thoughts of the title character than in the property disputes and hunting outings which take up a large portion of the book), the sections dealing with the central characters (pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62480383">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had started to read this book, and then lost it. Every so often I get the yen again.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[very interesting- apart from the writing because its largely factual.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Scott was the classic script writer -- he's just so adept at writing great scenes and giving his actors some excellent lines to deliver (the &quot;chariot race&quot; on Lady Ashton's return, Ravenswood's final showdown with Lucy, etc). He even made Lucy somewhat sympathetic -- hard to do, given that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21843770">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to read this for a class on the Scottish Enlightenment, but it's so good! Even if you don't understand the politics behind it, it's a fun/quick read. The women characters really make this book interesting. And I think the SF Opera is doing The Bride Of Lammermoor this year...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Haven't seen the opera, but I imagine the book would lend itself well to that format...it's so gothic and melodramatic!!]]></body>
    
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