About this title: This 1818 novel is considered Scott's best work. It opens in 1736 with a prison riot, out of which a melodramatic but convincing story evolves. Effie Deans, falsely accused of murdering her son, is sentenced to death. Her sister, the memorable Jeanie Deans--one of Scott's most beloved heroines--sets out to secure a pardon from the queen. She ...
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Description: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: SOME ] [ Writing: SOME ] [ Torn pages: NO ] [ Broken Seams: NO ] Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Pub Date: 2/10/1983 Binding: Paperback Pages: 614. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Rinehart
Date Published: 1948
Description: Good. This is a nice paperback copy. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean and bright. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Description: Good. B000868JNG Hardcover with no DJ, moderate shelf-wear, rubbing, chipping and bumping on cover, edges, corners, and spine. Binding is tight and square. Inside pages may contain underlining, note taking, yellowing pages, folded page corners, and/or highlighting. Book is in stock and ready to ship from Phoenix, Arizona same or next business day. Select Expedited shipping and receive your book within 3-5 business days. Buy with confidence! Please leave feedback after your purchase. It helps ... read more
Description: Good. B0007DUASC Paperback with moderate shelf-wear, tears, chipping, and creasing on cover, edges, corners, and spine. Binding is tight and square. Inside pages are free from underlining, note taking, and/or highlighting but pages have experienced some yellowing due to age. Book is in stock and ready to ship from Phoenix, Arizona same or next business day. Select Expedited shipping and receive your book within 3-5 business days. Buy with confidence! Please leave feedback after your purchase. ... read more
Binding: Half-Leather
Publisher: Peter Fenelon Collier & Son
Date Published: 1900
Description: Good. No Jacket. Maroon cloth boards with leather corners. Leather spine with gilt decorations. Illustrated. Spine scuffed with some small tears, slight staining on back board. Book tightly bound and clean. #7 in series. read more
Description: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918 (hardback, no dj, introduction by William P. Trent front hinge loose, prev. owner's name on fep, cover faded on spine) read more
Edition: Ninth Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, NY
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Cover is bumped, scuffed. Pages are tight with permanent markings. Owner's name in book. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dutton, New York
Date Published: 1939
Description: Good + Good DJ. 16mo = 6-7' 551pp. +16pgs. of the full Everyman's Library listing. Dj is soiled, has tears on edges. Everyman's Library. read more
Edition: Reprinted
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London
Date Published: 1916
Description: Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Cover bumped and well worn and frayed on spine. Cover pulling loose at inside gutter. Pages with age spots and bent corners and marks in text. Small tears and worn edges on front end page. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780140431292ISBN:0140431292
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Good Copy Text is clean and unmarked. binding is tight. Spine is square, with creasing, and wear, and Bumping to corners. front cover edge missing 11/2 inch off edge. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 864 p. Penguin Classics. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: P. F. Collier & Son, New York
Description: Good. No Jacket. No publication date. Volume 7 of the Waverly Novels. The boards show some wear and there is a small, faint stain on the front. The spine is slightly faded but the lettering is still quite legible. There is some soiling along the gutters of the front and rear covers. The pages are lightly age-toned but are not marked. The binding is in very good condition. read more
Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books, New York
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780140431292ISBN:0140431292
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Beautiful copy. Clean & unmarked. Tight. Very light wear to covers. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 864 p. Penguin Classics. Audience: General/trade. read more
"I had often wondered why tourists, Americans in particular, spat on that particular tile on the ground outside St Giles'Cathedral in Edinburgh. This is why.
The best description of a city riot (Dicken's 'Barnaby Rudge' does not even come near) I have ever read.
The strange complications of Covenantor religious precepts: Protestantism fractrured into strange and warped cultisms. Honour in the Law, in the soul, in religion.
Mark Twain blamed Scott for the Am Civil War, for instilling this idea of 'honour', of a region under the yoke of another and constantly but denied self identity. And all the concomtant exasperation and bitterness implicit in that."
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