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Rob Roy: Mint Editions (Historical Fiction)

Autor Walter Scott
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en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 mai 2021

În centrul romanului Rob Roy se află coliziunea inevitabilă dintre două lumi care nu pot coexista: raționalismul comercial al Angliei secolului al XVIII-lea și codul de onoare arhaic, adesea violent, al clanurilor scoțiene. Găsim în această lucrare a lui Walter Scott nu doar o aventură istorică, ci o meditație asupra modului în care progresul civilizației sacrifică inevitabil libertatea individuală și mitul. Tensiunea este resimțită prin ochii lui Frank Osbaldistone, un tânăr exilat din casa tatălui său, a cărui călătorie spre nord devine o inițiere într-o realitate unde legea este dictată de sabie și loialitate, nu de registre contabile. Apreciem modul în care Walter Scott construiește o geografie simbolică a Scoției, unde Highlands-ul devine un spațiu imaginar în care primitivul și modernul se întâlnesc într-un dans periculos. Cei care au parcurs Waverley de Sir Walter Scott vor fi pregătiți pentru finețea cu care autorul tratează eșecul revoltelor iacobite, însă aici tonul este mai sofisticat, alternând între momente de un comic savuros și episoade de o cruzime zguduitoare. Dacă în Redgauntlet autorul explorează fanatismul unei cauze pierdute, în Rob Roy el se concentrează pe figura legendară a banditului scoțian, transformându-l într-un simbol al rezistenței împotriva uniformizării. Această ediție din seria Wordsworth Classics păstrează prospețimea textului revizuit de autor în 1830, oferind cititorului un ritm narativ dens, îmbogățit de note explicative care clarifică contextul politic complex al vremii. Este o operă care demonstrează de ce Walter Scott rămâne arhitectul romanului istoric modern, reușind să extragă umanitatea dincolo de faptele seci ale cronicii.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781513205601
ISBN-10: 1513205609
Pagini: 412
Dimensiuni: 132 x 209 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Mint Editions
Colecția Mint Editions (Historical Fiction)
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De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Rob Roy celor care doresc să exploreze rădăcinile identității scoțiene printr-o narațiune ce îmbină rigoarea istorică cu farmecul legendei. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă profundă asupra conflictelor culturale care au modelat Regatul Unit, totul în cadranul unei povești de dragoste și onoare. Este alegerea ideală pentru amatorii de beletristică clasică ce apreciază personajele feminine puternice, precum Diana Vernon, și atmosfera sălbatică a munților Scoției.


Despre autor

Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) a fost un romancier istoric, dramaturg și poet scoțian, fiind considerat inventatorul genului romanului istoric modern. Deși și-a început cariera literară cu poezie, a obținut un succes internațional fără precedent prin seria sa de romane Waverley, publicate inițial anonim pentru a-și proteja reputația într-o epocă în care proza era considerată inferioară poeziei. Opera sa este profund ancorată în tradițiile orale și istoria zbuciumată a granițelor scoțiene, transformând figuri istorice reale în arhetipuri literare durabile.


Descriere scurtă

Francis Osbaldistine, the son of an English merchant, had always been different than the rest of his family. With an opposing temperament and religion than his father and younger brother, Francis dreams of writing poetry, despite his father's desire for him to go into the family business. When Francis refuses to work for his father, he is sent away to live with his uncle, on the condition that his cousin, Rashleigh, switches places with Francis in the family business. While Francis is initially happy with this arrangement, Rashleigh has a reputation for his unruliness, which he lives up to shortly after joining the business. Soon Rashleigh gets into trouble he cannot overcome on his own. Concerned for the implications this would have on the family, Francis has no choice but to travel to Scotland to clean up Rashleigh's mess, leading to misadventures, odd strangers, and even the chance of romance. While Francis appreciates the beauty and the exciting culture of Scotland, he meets the astonishingly eccentric Rob Roy MacGregor, who has garnered quite the reputation, leading to even more hilarity and chaos. First published over two-hundred years ago in 1817, Rob Roy is among the most comical historical novels in Sir Walter Scott's Waverly series. Set in the 18th century, during the year of the first Jacobite uprising, Rob Roy provides modern readers with invaluable insight on the social, cultural, and economical background of Scotland and England, through its excellent representation of the two nations and their citizens during a time of tension. With compelling, unforgettable characters, Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott is as entertaining as it is fascinating. This edition of Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott now features an eye-catching new cover design and is printed in a font that is both modern and readable. With these accommodations, this edition of Rob Roy crafts an accessible and pleasant reading experience for modern audiences while restoring the original mastery of Sir Walter Scott's literature. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Scott's young hero Francis Osbaldistone is plunged into the intrigue and adventure of the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion when he is falsely accused of highway robbery on his journey to the North of England. In his fight for both love and justice he must outwit his villainous cousin, Rashleigh, and travel to Scotland--a land of breathtaking beauty and dark foreboding--where his salvation can only be obtained with the help of the greatest outlaw of all, Robert Roy Campbell MacGregor.

Notă biografică

Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh on 15 August 1777. He was educated in Edinburgh and called to the bar in 1792, succeeding his father as Writer to the Signet, then Clerk of Session. He published anonymous translations of German Romantic poetry from 1797, in which year he also married. In 1805 he published his first major work, a romantic poem called The Lay of the Last Minstrel, became a partner in a printing business, and several other long poems followed, including Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810). These poems found acclaim and great popularity, but from 1814 and the publication of Waverley, Scott turned almost exclusively to novel-writing, albeit anonymously. A hugely prolific period of writing produced over twenty-five novels, including Rob Roy (1817), The Heart of Midlothian (1818), The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), Kenilworth (1821) and Redgauntlet (1824). Already sheriff-depute of Selkirkshire, Scott was created a baronet in 1820. The printing business in which Scott was a partner ran into financial difficulties in 1826, and Scott devoted his energies to work in order to repay the firm¿s creditors, publishing many more novels, dramatic works, histories and a life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Sir Walter Scott died on 21 September 1832 at Abbotsford, the home he had built on the Scottish Borders.

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For the most popular of his Scottish romances, published at the end of 1817, 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 of the novel's 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 he 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 friends. By turns thrilling and comic, Rob Roy contains Scott's most sophisticated treatment of the Scottish Highlands as an imaginary space where the modern and the primitive come together. Newly edited from the `Magnum Opus' text of 1830, this edition includes full explanatory notes and a critical introduction exploring the originality and complexity of Scott's achievement. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.