Red Cap Adventures

Red Cap Adventures

Author: Samuel Rutherford Crockett

Publisher:

Published: 1908

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13:

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Stories adapted from four of Sir Walter Scott's novels with the intent 'to lure children' to the originals.


Sir Nigel

Sir Nigel

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher:

Published: 2018-05-09

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 3963767154

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Sir Nigel is a historical novel set during the Hundred Years' War, by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1906, it is a fore-runner to Doyle's earlier novel The White Company, and describes the early life of that book's hero Sir Nigel Loring in the service of King Edward III at the start of the Hundred Years' War.


Walter Scott and the Limits of Language

Walter Scott and the Limits of Language

Author: Alison Lumsden

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2010-12-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0748687297

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Scott's startlingly contemporary approach to theories of language and the creative impact of this on his work are explored in this new study.


Nigel's Dream

Nigel's Dream

Author: Errol Shaw

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-02-15

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1479787876

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Synopsis At an early age, a young girl met and fell in love with a good looking boy who often visited the Kingston wharf to swim with other boys. It was close to this area that Doreen met and fell in love with this boy known to others only as Roy. This boy was the oldest of the pack of boys who he often hangs out with at the wharf. She had no idea what would become of her life. It did not take long before the two became really close. Although Doreen was under age, she failed to follow her mother's advise and was sexually involved with the boy she met. She became pregnant and later gives birth to a child with amazing capabilities. From the inception of his birth, Nigel, was deemed a child of mystery and remarkable talent. He had visions in the world that many people, including his family, could not believe. At a young age, he was able to tell vivid stories of his dreams and imaginations to his family that at times appeared to be seemingly real. Even in school he developed the ability to read and write much quicker than others who were not able to at his level. Who knew that one day this young boy would rise above it all. Only time will give an account to what kind of man Nigel would grow up to be, as he get over the spirits that followed the family for most of his young life. Incredibly, his family dug deeper to explore the visions and talent this youngster possessed. They would later realize that there is more to his talents that set him apart from other children. They would later find out most of his talents would stem from spirits teaching him the basic principles of learning to read and write. Soon enough, the thoughts of dealing and finding ways to evade ghost would overwhelm them. The spirits would haunt them everywhere they traveled. However, despite all their fears casted by ghosts, Nigel was the least fearful of the crack walls, the rising bed and the falling clock. Ultimately, their vision and hope to rise against it all will one day become a possibility.


Possible Scotlands

Possible Scotlands

Author: Caroline McCracken-Flesher

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005-09-22

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0198037910

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No thanks to Walter Scott, Scotland has at last regained its parliament. If this statement sounds extreme, it echoes the tone that criticism of Scott and his culture has taken through the twentieth century. Scott is supposed to have provided stories of the past that allowed his country no future--that pushed it "out of history." Scotland has become a place so absorbed in nostalgia that it could not construct a politics for a changing world. Possible Scotlands disagrees. It argues that the tales Scott told, however romanticized, also provided for a national future. They do not tell the story of a Scotland lost in time and lacking value. Instead they open up a narrative space where the nation is always imaginable. This book reads across Scott's complex characters and plots, his many personae, his interventions in his nation's nineteenth-century politics, to reveal the author as an energetic producer of literary and national culture working to prevent a simple or singular message. Indeed, Scott invites readers into his texts to develop multiple and forward-looking interpretations of a Scotland always in formation. Scott's texts and his nation are alive in their constant retelling. Scott was an author for Scotland's new times.


Literature and Union

Literature and Union

Author: Gerard Carruthers

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 0198736231

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This volume provides a fresh perspective on the ways in which writers have dealt with the relationship between literature and union, especially in Scottish literary contexts. It interrogates, from various angles, the assumption of a binary opposition between organic Scottish values and those supposedly imposed by an overbearing imperial England.


The Innocent Anthropologist

The Innocent Anthropologist

Author: Nigel Barley

Publisher: Waveland Press

Published: 2000-08-23

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1478631023

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When British anthropologist Nigel Barley set up home among the Dowayo people in northern Cameroon, he knew how fieldwork should be conducted. Unfortunately, nobody had told the Dowayo. His compulsive, witty account of first fieldwork offers a wonderfully inspiring introduction to the real life of a cultural anthropologist doing research in a Third World area. Both touching and hilarious, Barley’s unconventional story—in which he survived boredom, hostility, disaster, and illness—addresses many critical issues in anthropology and in fieldwork.