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Surrender to the Highlander
Edith Drummond owes her life to Niels Buchanan and his brothers. Waking after an illness to a castle overrun by rugged Highlanders is disconcerting, but so is learning that she is slowly being poisoned. Niels insists on staying by her side, and Edith soon discovers that even more dangerous is her wild attraction to the fierce warrior. Niels has never met a more courageous-or enticing-woman that Lady Edith. The idea of such a bonny lass being forced to enter a nunnery is more than any red-blooded Scotsman could bear. He'll gladly marry her himself. But while sweeping her off her feet is easy, it'll take all his skill to defeat her family's relentless enemies and convince her to surrender to his sweet embrace...
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Scottish Gothic
Written from various critical standpoints by internationally renowned scholars, Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion interrogates the ways in which the concepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. This interdisciplinary collection is the first ever published study to investigate the multifarious strands of Gothic in Scottish fiction, poetry, theatre and film. Its contributors - all specialists in their fields - combine an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of works, both classic and lesser known, produced between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries.
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A strange Scottish shore
\"Scotland, 1906. A mysterious object discovered inside an ancient castle calls Maximilian Haywood, the new Duke of Olympia, and his fellow researcher Emmeline Truelove, north to the remote Orkney Islands. No stranger to the study of anachronisms in archeological digs, Haywood is nevertheless puzzled by the artifact: a suit of clothing, which, according to family legend, once belonged to a selkie who rose from the sea in ancient times and married the castle's first laird. But Haywood and Truelove soon discover they're not the only ones interested in the selkie's strange hide, and when their mutual friend Lord Silverton vanishes in the night from an Edinburgh street, the mystery takes a dangerous turn through time, which only Haywood's skills and Truelove's bravery can solve.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Possible Scotlands : Walter Scott and the story of tomorrow
Walter Scott is confined by his literary and political reputations. He is considered foundational to the novel, but categorized under history or romance, and thus set aside. In Scotland, on the grounds that he purveys a romanticized past, he is thought to have put the nation “outside of history.” This book applies postcolonial and nation theories, ideas of symbolic economies, and the economics of semiotics, to show Scott as an author who deconstructs the categories he invokes to allow for an activist literature. Scott tells not one tale of Scotland, but many; these are located in the past, but clash to open a space for the future. Indeed, Scott critiques the ideas of the national tale, teller, and mode of telling to show that national narrative may allow creative and strategic differential play within the nation's idea of itself. The book tracks Scott's developing strategies across the range of his works: novels, poems, letters, pamphlets, prefaces. Major figures include Thomas the Rhymer; texts include Waverley, Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Tale of Old Mortality, The Heart of Midlothian, The Fortunes of Nigel, The Talisman, Woodstock, and Castle Dangerous; cultural moments include the banking crisis (Malachi Malagrowther), and King George IV's visit to Edinburgh. Scott privileges ideas of anxiety, contingency, and change in the literary construction of the nation. For this reason, he disturbs Scotland even today as the nation ponders its identity formation through the new Scottish Parliament. Scott's demonstration of how literature can support, reflect, and produce political change makes him relevant in discussions of ongoing identity formation in Scotland and elsewhere.
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Dragonfly in amber : a novel
For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones; about a love that transcends the boundaries of time; and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his. Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire's spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden Paris court of Charles Stuart in a race to thwart a doomed Highlands uprising and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves.
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Robert Louis Stevenson and the Romantic Tradition
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The bride of Lammermoor
\"The Waverly novels by the immensely popular Scottish author enthralled readers with their dashing mix of historical fiction, romance, and revenge. This installment, originally published in 1819, takes place in the early 1700s and tells of a doomed love affair between a young woman and her family's sworn enemy. The tale served as the inspiration for Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor\"-- Provided by publisher.
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In another time
It's 1942, and as the war rages in Europe, Maisie McCall is in the Scottish Highlands swinging an axe for the Women's Timber Corps. Maisie relishes her newfound independence working alongside other lumberjacks--including the mysterious John Lindsay. As Maisie and John work side by side felling trees together, Maisie can't help but feel that their friendship has the spark of something more to it. And yet every time she gets close to him, John pulls away. It's not until Maisie rescues John from a terrible logging accident that he begins to open up to her about the truth of his past, and the pain he's been hiding. Suddenly everything is more complicated than Maisie expected. And as she helps John untangle his shattered history, she must decide if she's willing to risk her heart to help heal his. But in a world devastated by war, love might be the only thing left that can begin to heal what's broken.
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