The Life of Sir Walter Scott
Author: John G. Lockhart
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
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The Journal of Sir Walter Scott
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
Published: 1890
Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott
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.
The Life of Walter Scott
Author: 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,
The Laird of Abbotsford
Author: A. N. Wilson
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis critical biography the indifference which has surrounded Scott in this century and the distortions of his Victorian idolators to recapture the freshness of Scott as he appeared to his contemporaries. By weaving together the life and works, and examining all of Scott's best-known books
Count Robert of Paris
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
Published: 1887
Total Pages: 436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Rise and Fall of the City of Money
Author: 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.
Napoleon
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781906142216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSir Walter Scott infuriated the more jingoistic of the British when his biography of Napoleon first appeared. The biography is of course coloured by the fact that it was written by a novelist but this only adds to its freshness and analytical features.
