| Scott's Lady Of The Lake Contributor(s): Scott, Walter (Author) |
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ISBN: 1500414255 ISBN-13: 9781500414252 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $16.38 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1893 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6" W x 9" (0.66 lbs) 220 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Walter Scott, the ninth of a family of twelve children, was born at Edinburgh in August, 1771. His first consciousness of existence dated from the time when he was sent, a lame, delicate child, to Sandyknowe, the residence of his paternal grandfather. Here he "was often carried out and laid down beside the old shepherd among the crags or rocks round which he fed his sheep." If Scott's genius was late in flowering, who can say that the budding did not begin in that early, close companionship with the Highland country which he was to reproduce so vividly in his verse and fiction? With strength increased by open-air life, although still slightly lame, we find him later a sturdy, active, not over-studious boy at school at Edinburgh and Kelso, and at fifteen beginning in his father's office the legal studies which he continued at the university. |
