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Title	:	The Heart of Mid-Lothian (Tales of My Landlord #2)
Author	:	Walter Scott
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 793 pages
Published	:	August 25th 1994 by Penguin Classics (first published 1818)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Cultural. Scotland. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. 19th Century

The Heart of Mid-Lothian (Tales of My Landlord #2)

Walter Scott

Paperback | Pages: 793 pages

Rating: 3.69 | 1160 Users | 82 Reviews

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Early in 1817 Scott received in an unsigned letter the seed of The Heart of Mid-Lothian and began immediately to shape from historical fact the story of Jeanie Deans, a dairymaid who, while refusing to lie to save her sister’s life, journeys to London to beg for a reprieve. Set in the 1730s in a Scotland uneasily united with England, the novel dramatizes different kinds of justice: that meted out by the Edinburgh mob in the lynching of one Captain Porteous, and that encountered by a young girl on trial for infanticide.

A bestseller from Philadelphia to St. Petersburg, an inspiration to succeeding novelists from Balzac to George Eliot, The Heart of Mid-Lothian is the seventh and finest of Scott’s ‘Waverley’ novels. This edition, based on the first edition of 1818, incorporates many new corrections from the manuscript and from other sources. Tony Inglis provides a full introduction to the historical background, and to the novel’s rich use of language and dialect, its themes and narrative modes.

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Original Title:	The Heart of Midlothian
ISBN:	0140431292 (ISBN13: 9780140431292)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Tales of My Landlord #2
Setting:	Edinburgh, Scotland,1736 Scotland,1736

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The title of this book comes from the nickname of the prison in Edinburgh, Scotland (real name Toolbooth) ... Midlothian, is the county, surrounding that beautiful, ancient, hilly, capital city; in 1736, there occurred a brutal riot, in which Captain John Porteous, of the local police force, an arrogant man, was lynched by an angry mob , ( a real event) the captain, had killed some townspeople, during a tumultuous disturbance earlier. A smuggler Andrew Wilson, was executed under his watch, his

I've wanted to read some Walter Scott ever since I was told that he was Borges favourite novelist. The Heart of Midlothian is regarded as one of his finest novels, and is the only one which a major football team is named after. It seemed an obvious choice. It starts well, with stirring street scenes, a major riot and a strong sense of Edinburgh as a place. All in all very Dickensian. Thereafter the going becomes harder. A lot of time is spent with virtuous characters, and much less with some of

A good Walter Scott novel, loosely based on real facts. Jeanie Deans, the main character, can be considered (as C.S.Lewis remarked) one of the "perfect women" in literature. The novel slacks its pace between chapters 39 and 49, but rushes forth to a surprising ending in the last three chapters.

DNF. Could not get through this without a literature guide, and I'd rather just read for pleasure and pick books I actually understand.

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As Effie faces execution in prison, Jeanie decides to walk to London to plead for her sister's life. Available at BBC Radio 7.

I was meaning to read this one for a long time and it didn't disappoint. It took a bit to get through the dialogue and if I didn't know the context of the religiousness, I would have been utterly annoyed, but it was well done, the whole road movie of Jeanie Deans going to get the pardon for her sister.If I hadn't known this was based on a real life event, I'd have been quite skeptical about the situation, but it worked well.