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Castle Dangerous and the Surgeon's Daughter: The Works of Sir Walter Scott
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Castle Dangerous and the Surgeon’s Daughter: The Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, Sir
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  1. Sir Walter Scott was a master of diverse talents. He was a man of letters, a dedicated historian and historiographer, a well-read translator of foreign texts, and a talented poet. Deriving most of his material from his native Scotland, its history and its legends, Scott invented and mastered what we know today as the historical novel. Castle Dangerous is set in 1306 during the Wars of Independence. An English heiress, Lady Augusta de Berkely, has promised to marry Sir John de Walton if he can defend the strategically vital Castle Douglas against the forces of Robert the Bruce and Sir James Douglas for a year and a day. Increasingly alarmed, though, by the danger he is running, she travels to Douglasdale in masculine disguise, accompanied by an old minstrel, Bertram. She takes up residence in the Convent of St. Bride where she immediately falls under suspicion of being a spy. When Sir John demands that the mysterious youth be brought to Castle Douglas for questioning, Augusta flees in shame and blunders into the hands of Sir James Douglas. When her true identity is revealed, Douglas refuses to deliver her to Sir John unless he surrenders the castle. Sir John refuses and engages in personal combat with Douglas. Still unresolved, their conflict is ended by an order from Sir John’s defeated ally, the Earl of Pembroke, to surrender the castle. Douglas chivalrously restores Lady Augusta to Sir John and, although he has been unable to fulfill her conditions, she accepts his hand. See the many other works by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing
Country
United States
Date
10 September 2010
Pages
568
ISBN
9781162631967
  1. Sir Walter Scott was a master of diverse talents. He was a man of letters, a dedicated historian and historiographer, a well-read translator of foreign texts, and a talented poet. Deriving most of his material from his native Scotland, its history and its legends, Scott invented and mastered what we know today as the historical novel. Castle Dangerous is set in 1306 during the Wars of Independence. An English heiress, Lady Augusta de Berkely, has promised to marry Sir John de Walton if he can defend the strategically vital Castle Douglas against the forces of Robert the Bruce and Sir James Douglas for a year and a day. Increasingly alarmed, though, by the danger he is running, she travels to Douglasdale in masculine disguise, accompanied by an old minstrel, Bertram. She takes up residence in the Convent of St. Bride where she immediately falls under suspicion of being a spy. When Sir John demands that the mysterious youth be brought to Castle Douglas for questioning, Augusta flees in shame and blunders into the hands of Sir James Douglas. When her true identity is revealed, Douglas refuses to deliver her to Sir John unless he surrenders the castle. Sir John refuses and engages in personal combat with Douglas. Still unresolved, their conflict is ended by an order from Sir John’s defeated ally, the Earl of Pembroke, to surrender the castle. Douglas chivalrously restores Lady Augusta to Sir John and, although he has been unable to fulfill her conditions, she accepts his hand. See the many other works by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing
Country
United States
Date
10 September 2010
Pages
568
ISBN
9781162631967

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