You have requested me, my dear friend, to bestow some of that leisure with which Providence has blessed the decline of my life in registering the hazards and difficulties which attended its commencement.
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(1817)
Rob Roy
by Sir Walter Scott
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Scott drew on the legends and historical anecdotes about Rob Roy MacGregor he had collected in his youth. The famous outlaw is only one of a series of vivid characters who cast their spell on the novels hero, Frank Osbaldistone, on his journey through the wild northern territories of the new United Kingdom. Banished from his father's house, falling hopelessly in love with the spirited Diana Vernon, Frank becomes involved in the conspiracy surrounding the disastrous Jacobite rising of 1715. His adventures take him to "MacGregor's country", across the Highland Line, where he finds cruelty, heartbreak, and some unlikely allies.
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Scottish fiction, Jacobite Rising, Fiction, Outlaws, Scottish Authors, History, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Scotland, fiction, Fiction, historical, Large type books, Historical, Biographical, Historical fiction, Senior fiction, Scotland - History, Fiction, historical, general, Rob Roy, 1671-1734, Outlaws--fiction, Pr5322 .r6 2008, 823.7, Rob Roy, in fiction, English literaturePlaces
Scotland, Edinburgh, NorthumberlandTimes
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Rob Roy (Signet Classics)
May 1, 2007, Signet Classics
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in English
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0451530519 9780451530516
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A historical novel first published in 1817, this was one of the first popular novels to attempt the use of regional dialect, in this case both Scottish highland and lowland dialects with a glossary of Scottish words. The story is set immediately before the Jacobite Rising of 1715 and follows the narrator, an English merchant, to Scotland in pursuit of a debt. Here he encounters Rob Roy MacGregor, a larger-than-life character fighting for social justice for his kinsmen.
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