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"The Heart of Mid-Lothian is precisely focused on the trials for murder of John Porteous and of Effie Deans in 1736 and 1737. Yet it is a chronicle - Scott's only chronicle - which spans the eighty years of the life of David Deans, whose death takes place in 1751. It is the most complex of all Scott's narratives. It is also the most challenging in that it raises in an acute fashion the problem of a judicial system that does not produce justice. Scott places this fundamental issue in its immediate political context, in history as represented by the life of Deans, and alongside the justice of Providence as perceived by his daughter Jeanie, the greatest of Scott's heroines." "This edition of The Heart of Mid-Lothian provides a new text established in accordance with the tried policies and practices of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, and in its annotation treats comprehensively the novel's historical, legal, religious and cultural sources."--Jacket.
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Tales of my landlord, Second series. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
"The Heart of Mid-Lothian is precisely focused on the trials for murder of John Porteous and of Effie Deans in 1736 and 1737. Yet it is a chronicle - Scott's only chronicle - which spans the eighty years of the life of David Deans, whose death takes place in 1751. It is the most complex of all Scott's narratives. It is also the most challenging in that it raises in an acute fashion the problem of a judicial system that does not produce justice. Scott places this fundamental issue in its immediate political context, in history as represented by the life of Deans, and alongside the justice of Providence as perceived by his daughter Jeanie, the greatest of Scott's heroines." "This edition of The Heart of Mid-Lothian provides a new text established in accordance with the tried policies and practices of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, and in its annotation treats comprehensively the novel's historical, legal, religious and cultural sources."--Jacket.
Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe
17 stories: Metzengerstein -- [Assignation]( Ligeia -- [Fall of the House of Usher]( [William Wilson]( The man of the crowd -- The murders in the Rue Morgue -- The oval portrait -- [Masque of the Red Death]( [Pit and the Pendulum]( [Tell-tale Heart]( [Black Cat]( [Purloined Letter]( The imp of the perverse -- [Cask of Amontillado]( Hop-frog -- The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket -- 32 poems: Tamerlane -- Song ("I saw thee on thy bridal day") -- A dream within a dream -- The happiest day, the happiest hour -- Sonnet: To science -- Al Aaraaf -- Romance -- Fairy-land -- To Helen -- Lenore -- Israfel -- The city in the sea -- The sleeper -- The valley of unrest -- The coliseum -- To one in paradise -- The haunted palace -- Sonnet: Silence -- The conqueror worm -- Dream-land -- [Raven]( Ulalume -- For Annie -- Eldorado -- [Annabel Lee]( The bells -- O, Tempora! O, Mores! -- Alone -- Imitation (The first or 1827 version of "A dream within a dream") -- To ---
The Scarlet Letter and Other Tales of the Puritans
Contains: Birthmark Endicott and the Red Cross Ethan Brand Gentle Boy Lady Eleanore's Mantle May-Pole of Merry Mount [Minister's Black Veil]( Scarlet Letter [Young Goodman Brown](