A Life Of Walter Scott: The Laird Abbotsford N Wilson Pimlico Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Essays And Literary Reference

\ I Have Read All W Scott\ S Novels At Least Fifty Times Wrote Byron Grand Work Scotch Fielding As Well Great English Poet - Wonderful Man! Long To Get Drunk With Him A N Wilson\ Subtle Entertaining And Frequently Provocative Critical Biography Looks Back Through The Indifference Which Has Surrounded Walter Scott In Recent Distortions Of His Victorian Idolaters Recapture Freshness He Appeared Contemporaries Despite Staggering Output Novelist Biographer Historian Anthologist Not Mention Copious Letters Celebrated Journal Only Embarked On Literary Career Early Middle Age Face Constant Ill-Health Financial Domestic Troubles Successfully Combined Life Bestselling Much-Loved Enormously Influential Author That Lawyer Landowner Border Farmer Part-Time Soldier Paterfamilias Wilson Makes Clear Genius Humaneness Splendid Qualities Stoicism Sympathy Were Apparent By Weaving Together Works Discussing Best-Known Books Many Are Less Familiar Produced Lively Contagiously Enthusiastic Reassessment Writer Who Was Believes Greatest Single Imaginative Nineteenth Century\ Influence Felt Field Literature But Also Worlds Art Architecture Opera Manners Figures Diverse Queen Victoria Dickens Donizetti Pugin Victor Hugo Winner John Llewelyn Rhys Prize Σελίδες: 224 Διαστάσεις: 15 3X15 3Cm