The Heart of MidLothian Walter Scott Books
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The heart of Mid-Lothian (1875). This book, "The heart of Mid-Lothian", by Walter Scott, is a replication of a book originally published before 1875. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
The Heart of MidLothian Walter Scott Books
It is an incredible book. Despite the difficulties of Scott's use of the Scots' dialect and heavy interlardings of fine points of history, it well rewards the reading. And those get easier as you go along and get used to them. In the Scott monument in Edinburgh the main character, Jeanie Deans, is mentioned as one of his best and it is very true. Not only is she a strong, quietly righteous woman of the lower classes, her actions are inspiring and moving. On a par with Jane Eyre, and like her one of the first strong independent women in modern literature. she was loosely based on a real historical figure (unless Scott was being sly), but entirely a creation of Scott's and one of, if not his best. I would say she is the true heart of Midlothian (the Scottish county that includes Edinburgh), not the prison which was in the center of town and forms a pivotal plot fulcrum. Highly recommended.Product details
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The Heart of MidLothian Walter Scott Books Reviews
The fact that this monster of a novel was a bestseller at its time (1818) possibly tells us that 'progress' has reduced the time that we are willing to spend on reading. So for me. I was looking for the usual half dozen pocket books to take on a trip of a few days. This one was the last Scott that was still in my shelf. For lack of space I relegate books that I have read and that are not top favorites to either box storage in the garage or to 2nd hand book sales at school charities. This one I had not read yet. I will probably never have the stamina for it, unless I am marooned on the proverbial island and it happens to be in my hand luggage.
I did read the introductions and browsed through some chapters. Maybe another time. Possibly never, though I do remember that Scott's mansion Abbotsford near Edinburgh is one of only four writer's houses turned museum that I visited. The other three are Goethe's birth house in Frankfurt, the Joyce museum in Dublin (of which I can't remember for certain right now whether he ever lived there), and Nabokov's childhood appartment in St.Petersburg.
I think my Scott time is over, so if you wait for the next instalment of my Melville excursions, don't worry, I am not sidetracked. Redburn will be next, but I am travelling a lot these days, and I don't take hardcovers on trips.
Why then do I post a review on the 'Heart'? I was impressed by the editor's story of his trouble with identifying the right text for this publication. The writer, Scott, was a highly literate man in a modern society of his time, who even owned the publishing house himself, indirectly. The book was an international bestseller despite its folksiness and the excessive use of 'dialect' English. Finding out 200 years later which text is 'authoritative' can be damned hard.
You see what I am driving at. Text reconstruction is hard and often impossible. How then can a text that was transmitted orally for decades, if not centuries, before it was committed to paper, have an 'authoritative' version that has any plausible relation to its 'author'?
The 'Heart' is in a box in the garage now, in case you wondered.
This book is unreadable - it has very few letters on each line - it needs looking at by the publisher.
The text in this particular version is unreadable, with a few scattered words per page. This is not a comment on the work of Sir Walter Scott.
One of Scott's greatest story. A fabulous heroine Named Jeanie Deans.
A great of English literature and a must read.
Of the Waverly novels, this is the best.
Just finished it. It's the third novel by Scott that I've read, the others were "Ivanhoe" and "Waverley." I really like Sir Walter and actually agree with his general view of things....but....Well, my favorite novel of all time is "War and Peace." Maybe it's a little unfair to compare but in Scott's there is a certain lack of intensity or perhaps identification of the author with his characters. Maybe he would have done better to have just written a history of Scotland without putting in fictional characters. Sorry to be so harsh, but I did enjoy the books.
The Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is the best novel in the distinguished series by this author called "The Waverly Novels. (The series title derives from the name of the title hero in the first of these novels the young English soldier Edward Waverly.)
The plot is simple. Jeanie Deans is a young Calvinist lass who is engaged to be married to a poor schoolmaster named Reuben Butler. During the 1736 riots in Edinburgh, in which Captain Porteous a tax agent was murdered by hanging, Jeanie's younger sister Effie is accused of murdering her newborn child. Effie is imprisoned and condemned to death. Jeanie seeks to save her life by appealing to Queen Caroline in London who is the wife of King George II of Great Britain. As Jeanie travels on her long jaunt from Edinburgh to London the reader meets a broad crosssection of Scottish and English persons who assist the young girl on her quest for justice. Jeanie is one of the most appealing heroines in all of British fiction.
The book is not only fascinating for this heartwarming story but also lluminates
a. The relationship between poor Scotland and wealthy England in the immediate years following the union of the two nations in 1707.
b. A look at the religious differences between episocapcy supported by the English and the stern
Calvinist Presbyterianism in Scotland
c. A nostalgic look at Scottish life as it moves from an agricultural to an industrialized age.
d. Like Charles Dickens, Scott was good at drawing eccentric minor characters which add richness and humor to this long novel.
And now for a caveat. Scott's novels are always difficult reading! He relishes in making authorial comments on the characters behavior and retards the action with long digressions on politics, religion and other aspects of Scottish life which may not have been familiar to his English readers. This material is often interesting but adds too many pages to his tale. The last quarter of the book needs editing as the decision regarding the fate of Effie Deans has already been decided by that point.
Scott's books require a glossary of Scottish words, customs and phrases which are necessary to aid the 21st century reader's understanding of the novel. Scott was the first major historical novelists in the English language. His novels broke new ground by interesting male and young readers in exciting epic fictions. He was widely popular in his own day. A resurgence of interest in this important author is long overdue. Scott is an excellent writer but it takes concentration and study to enjoy his books. The Heart of Mid-Lothian was published in 1818 and has never been out of print.
It is an incredible book. Despite the difficulties of Scott's use of the Scots' dialect and heavy interlardings of fine points of history, it well rewards the reading. And those get easier as you go along and get used to them. In the Scott monument in Edinburgh the main character, Jeanie Deans, is mentioned as one of his best and it is very true. Not only is she a strong, quietly righteous woman of the lower classes, her actions are inspiring and moving. On a par with Jane Eyre, and like her one of the first strong independent women in modern literature. she was loosely based on a real historical figure (unless Scott was being sly), but entirely a creation of Scott's and one of, if not his best. I would say she is the true heart of Midlothian (the Scottish county that includes Edinburgh), not the prison which was in the center of town and forms a pivotal plot fulcrum. Highly recommended.
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