Walter Scott

Siege of Malta and Bizarro (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Siege of Malta and Bizarro are Scott's final works, written in Malta and Italy at the end of 1831 and the beginning of 1832. Although extracts from The Siege of Malta have been published, this is the first complete edition. Bizarro has not been available in print until now.The Siege of Malta begins as a novel but ends as a historical account of the extraordinary defence of Malta by the Order of St John of Jerusalem and their Maltese helpers against much larger Muslim forces. It is an epic tale of endurance, resulting in inevitable defeat for some of the Knights, and for the rest, in the most hard-won of victories, setting the scene for the subsequent development of the Maltese nation.In the novella Bizarro Scott takes up the story of a notorious Calabrian brigand of the early nineteenth century. Scott's fictionalised account draws on his experience of visiting Naples and its surroundings and his earlier knowledge of Neapolitan history to tell a tale of passion, murder and revenge with a level of violence rarely seen in his earlier work. Though incomplete, Bizarro shows Scott had not lost his power to tell a good story in this, his very last piece of fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press,
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748679751
• Artikelnr.: 68956322

Autorenporträt

Sir Walter Scott, was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. Many of his works remain classics and include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor. J. H. Alexander is Reader Emeritus in English at the University of Aberdeen. Graham Tulloch is Professor of English at Flinders University, Australia. He has published books and articles on Scottish language and literature and has edited or co-edited Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Shorter Fiction, and The Siege of Malta and Bizarro for Edinburgh University Press and Catherine Martin's An Australian Girl and Marcus Clarke's His Natural Life for Oxford University Press. Judy King is Research Fellow at the School of Humanities at Flinders University, Australia. has co-edited Walter Scott's Shorter Fiction and Siege of Malta and Bizarro for Edinburgh University Press and has published articles on Beowulf.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Reading text of The Siege of Malta, Reading text of Bizarro
Hyphenation lists
Diplomatic transcription of the manuscript of The Siege of Malta
Essay on the Text for The Siege of Malta
Historical Note for The Siege of Malta
Explanatory Notes for The Siege of Malta
Diplomatic transcription of the manuscript of Bizarro
Essay on the Text for Bizarro
Historical Note for Bizarro
Explanatory Notes for Bizarro
Combined Glossary
Map of Malta
Digital photographs of the manuscripts on CD-rom.