Robin Jenkins

Lady Magdalen (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A work of rich, historical fiction from a vintage storyteller, Lady Magdalen is Jenkins's remarkable tribute to the feminine ideal.

We first encounter Magdalen as a fourteen-year-old. The daughter of Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird, she consents to an arranged marriage with the young soldier, James Graham, Earl of Montrose in order to please her father. Montrose's poetry inspires her but she soon learns that above all things he has military and political ambitions.

So begins this captivating portrait of the little-known wife of the infamous Montrose. Jenkins casts his ironic and informed eye over a host of memorable characters - from the domestic to the aristocratic - in a Scotland divided by social, military and political factions. Jenkins's appreciation of Scottish character and history and his narrative skill combine to create an effortlessly readable and engrossing novel.

"His uncompromising, deeply ambivalent analysis of human idealism has established him as the greatest living fiction writer in Scotland. Jenkins is the Scottish Thomas Hardy." The Scotsman

"Like all the great masters, his skill is lightly worn, his sentences singing with what he does not say . . . he is the great old man of Scottish letters." The Times

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857863669
• Artikelnr.: 38235055

Autorenporträt

Robin Jenkins was born in Cambuslang in 1912. His first novel was published in 1951 and more than 25 works of fiction have followed, many of which have been graced with literary awards and have remained in print for decades. He lives in Argyll.