Heart of Mid-Lothian Scott Sir Walter
Heart of Mid-Lothian Scott Sir Walter Jeanie Deans, a dairymaid, decides she must walk to London to gain an audience with the Queen. Set in the 1730s in a Scotland uneasily united with England, The…
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Heart of Mid-Lothian Scott Sir Walter
Jeanie Deans, a dairymaid, decides she must walk to London to gain an audience with the Queen. Set in the 1730s in a Scotland uneasily united with England, The Heart of Mid-Lothian dramatizes different kinds of justice--that meted out by the Edinburgh mob in the lynching of Captain Porteous, and that encountered by a terrified young girl suspected of killing her baby. Her sister is to be executed for infanticide and, while refusing to lie to help her case, Jeanie is desperate for a reprieve.
It was an international bestseller and inspired succeeding novelists from Balzac to George Eliot.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Based on an anonymous letter Scot received in 1817, this is the seventh and finest of Scott's "Waverley" novels. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global
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