For the most popular of his Scottish romances, published at the end of 1817, Scott drew on the legends & historical anecdotes about Rob Roy Mac Gregor he had collected in his youth. The famous outlaw is only one of a series of vivid characters who cast their spell of the novel`s hero, Frank Osbaldistone, on his journey through the wild northern territories of the new United Kingdom. Banished from his father`s house, falling hopelessly in love with the spirited Diana Vernon, Frank becomes involved in he conspiracy surrounding the disastrous Jacobite rising of 1715. His adventures take him to ` Mac Gregor`s country`, across the Highland Line, where he finds cruelty, heartbreak, & some unlikely friends. By turns thrilling & comic, Rob Roy contains Scott`s most sophisticated treatment of the Scottish Highlands as an imaginary space where the modern & the primitive come together. Newly edited from the ` Magnum Opus` text of 1830, this edition
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