Title | : | The Antiquary |
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Author | : | Sir Walter Scott |
Release | : | 2023-03-27 |
Kind | : | audiobook |
Genre | : | Fiction |
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1 | The Antiquary | Sir Walter Scott |
Jonathan Oldbuck, the antiquary of the title, has a passion for the past – and delights in trying to convey it. He meets the mysteriously taciturn young Lovel and the two strike up a friendship, bonding over Roman ruins. When Lovel falls for Isabella, daughter of a local landowner, it looks like an impossible situation. Sharp, funny, gothic, romantic, and full of action, this is a thoroughly entertaining window on Scottish life in the summer of 1794: it was Scott’s intention to show the spirit of the times, and how the past affects the present – and it was his own favourite of all his novels. |