Chronicles of the Canongate

Description

"Chronicles of the Canongate is unique among Scott's works as it is his only collection of shorter fiction. It contains his best-known tales, 'The Highland Widow' and 'The Two Drovers', and a third, less well known but of startling originality, 'The Surgeon's Daughter'. The three are set within the framing narrative of Chrystal Croftangry, an old bankrupt with pretensions to literature, who must inevitably be seen as a portrait of the artist facing up to his own insolvency in 1826." "Tales in a framework have a long ancestry in European and Oriental literature, and in Chronicles of the Canongate Scott adapts the genre with consummate skill. Each of the stories and Croftangry's narrative may be read independently, but together they constitute a themed work in which the narrator treats of the cultural conflicts in the new Britain and its growing empire in the thirty years from 1756."--BOOK JACKET.

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• Fiction

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Other Editions

• Chronicles of the CanongateEdinburgh University Press2000-01-01
• Chronicles of the CanongateMicroformPrinted for Cadell and co.1827-01-01
• Chronicles of the CanongatePrinted for Cadell and co.; [etc., etc.]1827-01-01
• Chronicles of the Canongate.Printed for Cadell and co.; [etc., etc.]1828-01-01
• Chronicles of the Canongate.Printed for Cadell and Co., Edinburgh; and Simpkin and Marshall, London1828-01-01
• Chronicles of the Canongate.Printed for Cadell and co.; [etc., etc.]1828-01-01