The Lady of the Lake

Name: The Lady of the Lake
Author: Walter Scott
ISBN: 9781787243972

Author: Walter Scott
Series: World Classics
Language: English
Length: 290 pages
ISBN: 9781787243972
Published: 25 January 2018
Imprint: Sovereign

Medieval Scotland
Romantic Epic
Ellen Douglas
James Fitz-James
Political Turmoil
Clan Conflicts
Love
Betrayal
Honor
Scottish Landscape

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Description

"The Lady of the Lake" by Walter Scott is a romantic epic set in medieval Scotland. The narrative unfolds around the mysterious Ellen Douglas, known as the Lady of the Lake, and the heroic knight James Fitz-James. Amidst political turmoil and clan conflicts, the story weaves together themes of love, betrayal, and honor. Scott's poem is renowned for its picturesque descriptions of the Scottish landscape and its contribution to the Romantic literary movement. "The Lady of the Lake" remains a classic that captures the spirit of a bygone era in the Highlands.

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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