The Life of Sir Walter Scott
Author: John G. Lockhart
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 328
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Author: John G. Lockhart
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Sutherland
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1998-01-06
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780631203179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Sutherland's new critical biography is an undertaking of major importance in which he penetrates into the darker areas of Scott's life in a sceptical (yet sympathetic) spirit,
Author: Fiona Robertson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2012-09-25
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0748670203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years.
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
Published: 1890
Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Walter Scott
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Published: 1821
Total Pages: 474
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ray Perman
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Published: 2019-10-10
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 178885229X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions which transformed Edinburgh into a global financial centre. The crash of 2008 wrecked the city's two largest and oldest banks – and its reputation. In the three intervening centuries, Edinburgh became a hothouse of financial innovation, prudent banking, reliable insurance and smart investing. The face of the city changed too as money transformed it from medieval squalor to Georgian elegance. This is the story, not just of the institutions which were respected worldwide, but of the personalities too, such as the two hard-drinking Presbyterian ministers who founded the first actuarially-based pension fund; Sir Walter Scott, who faced financial ruin, but wrote his way out of it; the men who financed American railways and eastern rubber plantations with Scottish money; and Fred Goodwin, notorious CEO of RBS, who took the bank to be the biggest in the world, but crashed and burned in 2008.
Author: Stuart Kelly
Publisher: Birlinn
Published: 2011-05-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0857900218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo writer has ever been as famous as Sir Walter Scott once was; and no writer has ever enjoyed such huge acclaim followed by such absolute neglect and outright hostility. But Scotland would not be Scotland except for Scott. All the icons of Scottishness have their roots in Scott's novels, poems, public events and histories. It's a legacy both inspiring and constraining, and just one of the ironies that fuse Scott and Scotland into Scott-land. In this book Stuart Kelly reveals Scott the paradox: the celebrity unknown, the nationalist unionist, the aristocrat loved by communists, the forward-looking reactionary. Part literary study, part biography, part travelogue, part surreptitious autobiography, Scott-land unveils a complex, contradictory man and the complex contradictory country he created. Insightful, accessible, witty and melancholy, this is a 'voyage around my fatherland' like no other.
Author: Carola Oman
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 396
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