The Bride of Lammermoor

Name: The Bride of Lammermoor
Author: Walter Scott
ISBN: 9781787244009

Author: Walter Scott
Series: World Classics
Language: English
Length: 356 pages
ISBN: 9781787244009
Published: 25 January 2018
Imprint: Sovereign

17th-Century Scotland
Tragic Love
Feuding Families
Lucy Ashton
Edgar Ravenswood
Political Intrigue
Family Conflicts
Mental Health
Forbidden Love
Society

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"The Bride of Lammermoor" by Walter Scott is a tragic tale set in 17th-century Scotland. The story revolves around the ill-fated love of Lucy Ashton and Edgar Ravenswood, heirs to feuding families. As political intrigue and family conflicts escalate, Lucy's mental health deteriorates, leading to a harrowing climax. Scott weaves a narrative of love, madness, and the supernatural against the backdrop of a divided society. "The Bride of Lammermoor" stands as a haunting exploration of fate, societal expectations, and the consequences of forbidden love.

Author

Walter Scott (1771–1832) invented the historical novel as a popular art. Waverley, Ivanhoe, and Rob Roy taught Europe that the past could be walked through — tartan, crusade, and the clash of Highland and Hanoverian as living weather, not a school lesson. A poet and an Edinburgh lawyer before the novels made him famous, Scott wrote at a pace that built Abbotsford and a nation's tourist imagination.

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Audiobook · English · Sovereign9781802565348