Count Robert of Paris, condemned by Scott's printer as "altogether a failure," was later prepared for publication by his son-in-law, J. G. Lockhart, and his publisher Robert Cadell. What appeared was a bowdlerized, tamed and tidied version of what Scott had written and dictated. This edition, the first to have returned to the manuscript and to the many surviving proofs, realises Scott's original intentions. Scott's last full novel has many roughnesses, but it also challenges the susceptibilities of his readers more directly than any other and in that lay its fault in the eyes of the lesser men who condemned it.
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They were the literary phenomenon of their time: The Waverly novels, 48 volumes set in fanciful re-creations of the Scottish Highlands (and other lands) of centuries past, published between 1814 and 1831 and devoured by a reading public hungry for these sweeping, interconnected melodramas. The series popularized historical fiction, though they're also abundant in astute political and social commentary.
Count Robert of Paris, Volume 46 of Waverly, is part of the fourth and final series in Scott's Tales of My Landlord. Ranging over the Near East, this is a tale of adventure and romance set during the first Crusades in the late 11th century. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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THE CLOSE observers of vegetable nature have remarked, that when a new graft is taken from an old tree, it possesses indeed in exterior form the appearance of a youthful shoot, but has in fact attained to the same state of maturity, or even decay, which has been reached by the parent stem. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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THE CLOSE observers of vegetable nature have remarked, that when a new graft is taken from an old tree, it possesses indeed in exterior form the appearance of a youthful shoot, but has in fact attained to the same state of maturity, or even decay, which has been reached by the parent stem. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lord count, general stylistic changes, emendation list, fair historian, fifty lances, surviving proofs, imperial pleasure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Achilles Tatius, Anna Comnena, Alexius Comnenus, Count of Paris, Imperial Majesty, Imperial Highness, Nicephorus Briennius, Lady of the Broken Lances, Countess of Paris, Prince Tancred, Godfrey of Bouillon, Empress Irene, Castle Dangerous, Brenhilda of Aspramonte, Sir Walter, Countess Brenhilda, Temple of the Muses, Golden Gate, Lady Brenhilda, Duke of Bouillon, Emperor of Greece, Emperor Alexius, Sir Knight, James Ballantyne, Grand Domestic Browse Sample Pages:
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