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«Old Mortality»

Old Mortality was conceived as the second volume of Tales of My Landlord, which was originally to consist of four volumes each containing a separate regional tale. As the 'tale of the West' took hold of Scott's imagination, however, it expanded to fill three volumes, the standard length for a novel. Having completed The Black Dwarf, the first... More...

St. Vincent, 1997, «Lucia de Lammermoor», «I Puritani»