Scotland, 1745. Against the bloody background of the Battle of Culloden, another war was waged and won--the price was honor, the victory, love. Scottish beauty Serena MacGregor's hatred of all English began as a child when she watched as a band of Englishmen attacked her mother. Her brother's friend Brigham Langston was no exception to Serena's lo...more
Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a centuries-old memoir by a Korean crown princess. An appropriate gift indeed for her impending trip to Seoul, but Barbara doesn't know who sent it. On the plane, she avidly reads the memoir, a story of great intrigue as well as tragedy. The Crown Princess Hyegyong recounts in ...more
Kidnapped from her African home, 16-year-old Raisha begins her new life on the island of St. John as a plantation slave and is soon swept into the great slave rebellion of 1733. "A magnificent tale, superbly told by a grand master of historical fiction."--Publishers Weekly.
Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a memoir by a Korean crown princess, written more than two hundred years ago. A highly appropriate gift for her impending trip to Seoul. But from whom? The story she avidly reads on the plane turns out to be one of great intrigue as well as tragedy. The Crown Princess Hyegyong ...more
This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infuriated by the actions of John Porteous, Captain of the Guard, and when they hear that his death has been reprieved by the distant monarch they ignore the Queen and resolve to take their own revenge. At ...more
Jeanie Deans, a dairymaid, decides she must walk to London to gain an audience with the Queen. Her sister is to be executed for infanticide and, while refusing to lie to help her case, Jeanie is desperate for a reprieve. Set in the 1730s in a Scotland uneasily united with England, "The Heart of Mid-Lothian" dramatizes different kinds of justice - t...more
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 accomp...more
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 accomp...more
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 Scott's only chronicle, spanning 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 a...more
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