Check him out. In 1773, Walter was affected by polio and was left lame. Sets of Books; Shop Folio Society; Sell your books; Contact Us; About Us; My Account; Customer Feedback; Blog; Credit Card Payments Secured by PayPal | See our 5-Star Feedback from Hundreds of Happy Customers. Another exciting novel written by Walter is known as ‘Guy Mannering’. Walter wrote and released his first book anonymously under the title of Waverly in 1814. In Knights of the Sea (2010) by Canadian author Paul Marlowe, there are several quotes from and references to Marmion, as well as an inn named after Ivanhoe, and a fictitious Scott novel entitled The Beastmen of Glen Glammoch. This novel appeared in 3 different volumes in London and Edinburgh. ‎SCOTT (Walter).‎ ‎OEuvres complètes de WALTER-SCOTT Traduction nouvelle de Louis BARRÉ illustrées par Édouard FRÈRE.‎ ‎Paris, J. Bry ainé, 1850. It was completed in 1844, 12 years after Scott's death, and dominates the south side of Princes Street. In a speech delivered at Salem, Massachusetts, on 6 January 1860, to raise money for the families of the executed abolitionist John Brown and his followers, Ralph Waldo Emerson calls Brown an example of true chivalry, which consists not in noble birth but in helping the weak and defenseless and declares that "Walter Scott would have delighted to draw his picture and trace his adventurous career. £3.65 postage. In most of the novels Scott preceded each chapter with an epigram or 'motto': most of these are in verse, and many are of his own composition, often imitating other writers such as Beaumont and Fletcher. Avec Ivanhoé, Walter Scott abandonne pour la première fois l'Écosse pour l'Angleterre du xiie siècle, celle de la résistance des Saxons contre les Normands, leurs maîtres depuis la conquête de 1066. Sarah Egerton essayed the role of the lead character Meg Merrilies. Scott Walter – Le Monastère : Le temps de cette lecture, vous vivrez dans une petite communauté catholique du nord de l’Écosse au milieu du 16 e siècle. Scott is now increasingly recognised not only as the principal inventor of the historical novel and a key figure in the development of Scottish and world literature, but also as a writer of a depth and subtlety who challenges his readers as well as entertaining them. For example: Lodge Sir Walter Scott, No. Scott is fascinated by striking moments of transition between stages in societies. One segment of the novel also shows the struggles of Henry Bertram in inheriting Ellangowan, whose Laird was his father. From Glencoe to Stirling: Rob Roy, The Highlanders, & Scotland's Chivalric Age (Tales of a Scottish Grandfather (3)) by Sir Walter Scott and George Grant. We'll base this on various factors for example "If you like Jack Reacher..." or "If you like short stories in the horror genre". Each month I pick a charity and ask that you support them instead. James also taught him everything about Scotland Church’s history. In 1804 he ended his use of the Lasswade cottage and leased the substantial house of Ashestiel, 6 miles (9.7 km) from Selkirk, was sited on the south bank of the River Tweed and incorporating an ancient tower house. [65] Ferguson commissioned Sir David Wilkie to paint the Scott family[66] resulting in the painting The Abbotsford Family[67] in which Scott is seated with his family represented as a group of country folk. £3.70 postage. Some of the famous titles penned by him include Old Mortality, Rob Roy, The Heart of Midlothian, Bride of Lammermoor, Ivanhoe, Waverly, Lady of the Lake, etc. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Every 2 weeks we send out an e-mail with 6-8 Book Recommendations. His son Lt. Walter Scott inherited the possessions and estate of his father after his death. Issued in 48 well-produced monthly volumes between June 1829 and May 1833 at the modest price of five shillings (25p) these were an innovative, and highly profitable, marketing enterprise aimed at a wide readership: the print run was an astonishing 30,000. After completing his studies in law, he became a lawyer in Edinburgh. Walter Dean Myers won the Council on Interracial Books for Children contest in 1969, which resulted in the publication of his first book, Where Does the Day Go? Finally, Scott had recently been inspired by the diaries of Samuel Pepys and Lord Byron, and he began keeping a journal over the period, which, however, would not be published until 1890, as The Journal of Sir Walter Scott. E-book - GRATUIT. (930 From 1001 Books) - Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott Ivanhoe is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, first published in 1820 in three volumes and subtitled A Romance. In March 1786, aged 15, he began an apprenticeship in his father's office to become a Writer to the Signet. [17] In 1796 he produced English versions of two poems by Gottfried August Bürger, Der wilde Jäger and Lenore, publishing them as The Chase, and William and Helen. [74], Numerous Masonic Lodges have been named after Scott and his novels. Others: Melrose Abbey, Newark Castle, Linlithgow Palace, Loch Vennacher, Stirling Castle, a Field of Bannockburn. Books by Scott, Walter (sorted by popularity) Sort Alphabetically; Sort by Release Date; Alias Templeton, Laurence; Alias Cleishbotham, Jedediah; Alias Malagrowther, Malachi; See also: en.wikipedia; Displaying results 1–25 | Next. Its author was Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) the famous poet. This trend accelerated in the 20th century. Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. All his career, he combined editing and writing work with the daily occupation of Session Clerk and Selkirkshire’s Sheriff-Depute. To add to his burdens, his wife Charlotte died in 1826. The following is a chronological list of the entire series: Many of the short poems or songs released by Scott (or later anthologized) were originally not separate pieces but parts of longer poems interspersed throughout his novels, tales, and dramas. The success of his Highland narrative poem The Lady of the Lake in 1810 seems to have put it into his head to resume the narrative and have his hero Edward Waverley journey to Scotland. Walter Scott (Sir Walter Scott, 1er baronnet) est un poète et écrivain écossais né le 15 août 1771 à Édimbourg et mort le 21 septembre 1832 à Abbotsford. This meant that he was dependent on a limited range of sources, all of them printed: he had to bring together material from different centuries and also invent an artificial form of speech based on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. Waverly finds his honor challenged when others try to push him to Prince Charlie’s side. Part of: Contemporary Perspectives on Multicultural Gifted Education (4 Books) | by Michelle Trotman Scott, Nicole McZeal Walters, et al. Sir Walter Scott (English) (as Author) The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. The result is as much myth as history, but the novel remains his best-known work, the most likely to be encountered by the general reader. He received proofs, also in batches, and made many changes at that stage, but almost always these were local corrections and enhancements. 2,99 € E-book - ePub . [2] He was the ninth child (six having died in infancy) of Walter Scott (1729–1799), a member of a cadet branch of the Clan Scott and a Writer to the Signet, by his wife Anne Rutherford, a sister of Daniel Rutherford and a descendant of both the Clan Swinton and the Haliburton family (the descent from which granted Walter's family the hereditary right of burial in Dryburgh Abbey). Throughout his creative life Scott was an active reviewer. As he enjoys the hospitality, Waverly’s head becomes full of romantic notions. In his early married days Scott had a decent living from his earnings as a lawyer, his salary as Sheriff-Depute, his wife's income, some revenue from his writing, and his share of his father's modest estate. I’d recommend The Store first. And you can find lots and lots … Scott is also commemorated on a stone slab in Makars' Court, outside The Writers' Museum, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, along with other prominent Scottish writers; quotes from his work are also visible on the Canongate Wall of the Scottish Parliament building in Holyrood. [77] Scott's Ivanhoe continued to be required reading for many American high school students until the end of the 1950s. Sixteen take place in Scotland. He was ordained as an elder in Duddingston Kirk in 1806,[57] and sat in the General Assembly for a time as representative elder of the burgh of Selkirk. [70], Abbotsford later gave its name to the Abbotsford Club, founded in 1834 in memory of Sir Walter Scott.[71]. One of his favourite books since childhood had been Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, and during the 1790s he engaged in research in manuscript collections and on Border 'raids' to collect ballads from oral performance. Scott is intrigued by the way that different stages of societal development can exist side by side in one country. There is a tower dedicated to his memory on Corstorphine Hill in the west of the city and Edinburgh's Waverley railway station, opened in 1854, takes its name from his first novel. [11] During this second spell at university Scott played a prominent role in student intellectual activities: he co-founded the Literary Society in 1789, and he was elected to the Speculative Society the following year, becoming librarian and secretary-treasurer the following year.[15]. Thanks! In the novella, however, Cramer proves as deluded a romantic as any hero in one of Scott's novels.[79]. Walter has set this book in Scotland in 1745 and has mentioned the primary characters in the roles of Edward Waverly, Davie Gellatley, Flora McIvor, Rose Bradwardine, etc. It was also published anonymously in 1815. Page de titre. Waverley novels Walter Scott 28 VOLs BOOKS c1895 PUBLISHER Constable WESTMINSTER. And feel free to submit your own suggestions via the contact form at the bottom of the page. At the time of his death, he still owed money to debtors. Scott responded to the contemporaneous German interest in national identity, folk culture, and medieval literature. The nonfiction works included the Life of Napoleon Buonaparte in 1827, two volumes of the History of Scotland in 1829 and 1830, and four installments of the series entitled Tales of a Grandfather – Being Stories Taken From Scottish History, written one per year over the period 1828–1831, among several others. https://www.lewrockwell.com/author/becky-akers/ Wilton Alston. Powell's is an independent bookstore based in Portland, Oregon. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/Sir-Walter-Scott ", According to his daughter Eleanor, Scott was "an author to whom Karl Marx again and again returned, whom he admired and knew as well as he did Balzac and Fielding."[81]. Delphi Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated) (Delphi Series One Book 22) by Sir Walter Scott and Delphi Classics. Son héros s'y trouve pris dans l'entrelacs et les conflits des fidélités familiales, féodales, amoureuses. The main innovation involves the prefacing of each of the six cantos with an epistle from the author to a friend: William Stewart Rose, The Rev. Oh, it was one of old Sir Walter's she saw, adjusting the shade of her lamp so that the light fell on her knitting. Preview this book » What people are saying - Write a review. [5][6], He survived a childhood bout of polio in 1773 that left him lame,[7] a condition that would have a significant effect on his life and writing. Sir Walter Scott was a well known 19th-century Scottish poet, historical novelist, historian, and playwright. Among the many great pieces about Walter I could point out, see this Jason Riley WSJ column about him from 2011. ‎This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. [10] In the winter of 1776 he went back to Sandyknowe, with another attempt at a water cure at Prestonpans during the following summer. Furne, Ch. Walter Scott 1831 Peveril of The Peak 3 Volumes Leather Cecil G.S. –. By 1814 his poetic star was fading while that of his rival Lord Byron was ascending into the heavenly realms of literary glory. The novel was adapted for the stage by an English playwright and Walter’s friend named Daniel Terry. Scott has been credited with rescuing the Scottish banknote. Three years after The Lay Scott published Marmion (1808) telling a story of corrupt passions leading up to the disastrous climax of the Battle of Flodden in 1513. Scott has proved particularly responsive to Postmodern approaches, most notably to the concept of the interplay of multiple voices highlighted by Mikhail Bakhtin, as suggested by the title of the volume with selected papers from the Fourth International Scott Conference held in Edinburgh in 1991, Scott in Carnival. Raising the book a little to hide his face he let them fall and shook his head from side to side and forgot himself completely (but not one or two reflections about morality and French novels and English novels and Scott's hands being tied but his view perhaps being as true as the other view), forgot his own bothers and failures completely in poor Steenie's drowning and Mucklebackit's sorrow (that was Scott at his best) and the astonishing delight and feeling of vigor that it gave him. He was by then well able to walk and explore the city and the surrounding countryside. He also received private tuition for writing and arithmetic from James Mitchell. [15] [51], After George's accession to the throne, the city council of Edinburgh invited Scott, at the sovereign's behest, to stage-manage the 1822 visit of King George IV to Scotland. In adult life he also adhered to the Scottish Episcopal Church: he seldom attended church but read the Book of Common Prayer services in family worship.[58]. Browse staff picks, author features, and more. The reception by the reviewers was less favourable than that accorded The Lay: style and plot were both found faulty, the epistles did not link up with the narrative, there was too much antiquarian pedantry, and Marmion's character was immoral. Twelve streets in Vancouver, British Columbia are named after Scott's books or characters.[78]. While F. R. Leavis had disdained Scott, seeing him as a thoroughly bad novelist and a thoroughly bad influence (The Great Tradition [1948]), György Lukács (The Historical Novel [1937, trans. He clean forgot all the little rubs and digs of the evening... and his being so irritable with his wife and so touchy and minding when they passed his books over as if they didn't exist at all ...[Scott's] feeling for straight forward simple things, these fishermen, the poor old crazed creature in Mucklebackit's cottage [in The Antiquary] made him feel so vigorous, so relieved of something that he felt roused and triumphant and could not choke back his tears. Designed by David Rhind in 1838, the monument features a large column topped by a statue of Scott. The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott Authors Edition1869-edited By JGLockhart. At a certain spot, the old gentleman would stop the carriage and take his son to a stone on the site of the Battle of Melrose (1526). In the last years of his life Scott marked up interleaved copies of these collected editions to produce a final version of what were now officially called the Waverley Novels: this is often referred to as the 'Magnum Opus' or 'Magnum Edition'. 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The Waverley Novels is the title given to the long series of Scott novels released from 1814 to 1832 which takes its name from the first novel, Waverley. 0 Avis . AbeBooks.fr; Chapitre.com; Trouver ce livre dans une bibliothèque; Tous les vendeurs » La dame du lac. [85] Seven songs from The Lady of the Lake were set, in German translations, by Schubert, one of them being 'Ellens dritter Gesang' popularly known as 'Schubert's Ave Maria', and three lyrics, also in translation, by Beethoven in his Twenty-Five Scottish Songs, Op. It fortified him. The novel then follows the adventures and fortunes of Harry Bertram and the members of his family in the years that follow his kidnapping. For Charles Tansley had been saying (she looked up as if she expected to hear the crash of books on the floor above) – had been saying that people don't read Scott any more. 108. In Mother Night (1961) by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., memoirist and playwright Howard W. Campbell Jr. prefaces his text with the six lines beginning "Breathes there the man...". [9] Here he was taught to read by his aunt Jenny Scott, and learned from her the speech patterns and many of the tales and legends that later characterised much of his work. 4 (of 5) (English) (as Translator) The following year, at the height of his poetic career, he was instrumental in the establishment of a Tory rival, The Quarterly Review to which he contributed reviews for the rest of his life. Whether in spite of these events, or because of them, Scott kept up his prodigious output. Who never to himself hath said, Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSA Scot (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian. 3 (of 5) (English) (as Translator) The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. "[80], In his 1870 memoir, Army Life in a Black Regiment, New England abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson (later editor of Emily Dickinson), described how he wrote down and preserved Negro spirituals or "shouts" while serving as a colonel in the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first authorized Union Army regiment recruited from freedmen during the Civil War. Scott wrote a series of letters to the Edinburgh Weekly Journal under the pseudonym "Malachi Malagrowther" for retaining the right of Scottish banks to issue their own banknotes. Page 282. Until his financial ruin in 1826 he continued this practice, and the novels mostly appeared as 'By the Author of Waverley' (or variants thereof) or as Tales of My Landlord. Sheriff Walter Scott hears neither rhyme nor reason in fellow poet’s defence - Andrew Stevenson Two hundred years ago, two of Scotland’s most eminent men of literature met in court. He wrote that he was "a faithful student of the Scottish ballads, and had always envied Sir Walter the delight of tracing them out amid their own heather, and of writing them down piecemeal from the lips of aged crones. Among his many lyrics were "The Lady in The Lake" and "Marmion." 19: Mort dAlexandre roi dEcosse Usurpation dEdouard Ier . [62][verification needed], It is estimated that the building cost Scott more than £25,000 (equivalent to £2,100,000 in 2019). Famous titles include The Lady of the Lake (narrative poem) and the novels Waverley, Old Mortality (or The Tale of Old Mortality), Rob Roy, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, The Bride of Lammermoor, and Ivanhoe. [55], Scott was buried in Dryburgh Abbey, where his wife had earlier been interred. 0 Avis . Another example can be found in 15th-century Europe in the yielding of the old chivalric worldview of Charles Duke of Burgundy to the Machiavellian pragmatism of Louis XI. Aperçu du livre » Avis des internautes - Rédiger un commentaire. In 1798 James had published Scott's version of Goethe's Erlkönig in his newspaper The Kelso Mail, and in 1799 he included it and the two Bürger translations in a small privately printed anthology Apology for Tales of Terror. Click & Collect. In an unprecedented move, the publisher Archibald Constable purchased the copyright of the poem for a thousand guineas at the beginning of 1807 when only the first epistle had been completed. After Walter Jr was born in 1801, the Scotts moved to a spacious three-storey house at 39 North Castle Street, which remained as Scott's base in Edinburgh until 1826, when it was sold by the trustees appointed after his financial ruin. Some have also argued that, although Scott was formally a supporter of the Union with England (and Ireland) his novels have a strong nationalist subtext for readers attuned to the appropriate wavelength.[47]. As Walter was mindful of his popularity as a poet, he maintained his anonymity while writing novels. He had an unsuccessful love suit with Williamina Belsches of Fettercairn, who married Scott's friend Sir William Forbes, 7th Baronet. Scott was an almost exclusively historical novelist. When Scott was a boy, he sometimes travelled with his father from Selkirk to Melrose, where some of his novels are set. Walter Scott was among them, and with a commission from his publisher for a travel book and a long poem. [2] In October 1779 he began at the Royal High School in Edinburgh (in High School Yards). Scott was better versed in his material than anyone: he was able to draw on oral tradition as well as a wide range of written sources in his ever-expanding library (many of them rare, and some of them unique copies). He served a term of twelve years as the President of Edinburgh’s Royal Society and a period of 2 years as the Vice President of Scotland’s Antiquaries Society. "[82] He goes on to coin the term "Sir Walter Scott disease," which he blames for the South's lack of advancement. Given Scott's established status as a poet, and the tentative nature of Waverley 's coming into being, it is not surprising that he followed a common practice at the period and published the work anonymously. There, he learned to read and speak under the guidance of his aunt. His advocacy of objectivity and moderation and his strong repudiation of political violence on either side also had a strong, though unspoken, contemporary resonance in an era when many conservative English speakers lived in mortal fear of a revolution in the French style on British soil. See all books authored by Walter Scott, including Ivanhoe, and Rob Roy, and more on ThriftBooks.com. This novel became so successful and popular that all his subsequent novels were collectively called ‘Waverly Novels’. In 1817 as part of the land purchases Scott bought the nearby mansion-house of Toftfield for his friend Adam Ferguson to live in along with his brothers and sisters and on which, at the ladies' request, he bestowed the name of Huntlyburn. He was acclaimed as the inventor of the genre of the modern historical novel (which others trace to Jane Porter, whose work in the genre predates Scott's) and the inspiration for enormous numbers of imitators and genre writers both in Britain and on the European continent. It was first released in 1814 and re-released by Penguin Books in 1995. Ivanhoé de Walter Scott - Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis - E-book - ePub. Discover Book Depository's huge selection of Walter Scott books online. In February 1797, with the threat of a French invasion, Scott along with many of his friends joined the Royal Edinburgh Volunteer Light Dragoons, with which he served into the early 1800s,[16] and was appointed quartermaster and secretary. His reading included chivalric romances, poems, history and travel books. [52] With only three weeks for planning and execution, Scott created a spectacular and comprehensive pageant, designed not only to impress the King, but also in some way to heal the rifts that had destabilised Scots society. In a discussion of his early novels Coleridge observed that derive their 'long-sustained interest ' from 'the contest between the two great moving Principles of social Humanity—religious adherence to the Past and the Ancient, the Desire & the admiration of Permanence, on the one hand; and the Passion for increase of Knowledge, for Truth as the offspring of Reason, in short, the mighty Instincts of Progression and Free-agency, on the other'. Walter Scott — ‘Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.’ Credit... E. Martin Jessee/Lexington Herald-Leader Both his parents shared the heritage of prosperous families of Scotland. [73] Sir Walter Scott (English) (as Author) Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy (English) (as Author) Social Origins and Primal Law (English) (as Author) The Story of Joan of Arc (English) (as Author) The Strange Story Book (English) (as Editor) Sylvie: souvenirs du Valois (English) (as Commentator) Hewitt, David (2004) "Scott, Sir Walter (1771–1832)", Monuments and monumental inscriptions in Scotland: The Grampian Society, 1871, Scott, Walter (2012) "General Preface" in, Levy, Lindsay (2012) "Was Sir Walter Scott a Bibliomaniac? During and immediately after World War I there was a movement spearheaded by President Wilson and other eminent people to inculcate patriotism in American school children, especially immigrants, and to stress the American connection with the literature and institutions of the "mother country" of Great Britain, using selected readings in middle school textbooks. Son héros s'y trouve pris dans l'entrelacs et les conflits des fidélités familiales, féodales, amoureuses. Sir Walter Scott's "Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft" were his contribution to a series of books, published by John Murray, which appeared between the years 1829 and 1847, and formed a collection of eighty volumes known as "Murray's Family Library." £6.99 postage. Scott also produced four minor narrative or semi-narrative poems between 1811 and 1817: The Vision of Don Roderick (1811); The Bridal of Triermain (published anonymously in 1813); The Field of Waterloo (1815); and Harold the Dauntless (published anonymously in 1817). 2000 Coretta Scott King Honor Book, 2000 Michael L. Printz Award, 1999 National Book Award Finalist, 01 Heartland Award for Excellence in YA Lit Finalist, 00-01 Tayshas High School Reading List, and 00-01 Black-Eyed Susan Award Masterlist [64] With his architects William Atkinson and Edward Blore Scott was a pioneer of the Scottish Baronial style of architecture, and Abbotsford is festooned with turrets and stepped gabling. [26] The most familiar lines in the poem sum up one of its main themes: 'O what a tangled web we weave,/ When first we practice to deceive! Aucun commentaire n'a été trouvé aux emplacements habituels. Characters expand under my hand; incidents are multiplied; the story lingers, while the materials increase—my regular mansion turns out a Gothic anomaly, and the work is complete long before I have attained the point I proposed'. Although Walter is primarily remembered for his political engagement and his extensive literary writings, he was a professional lawyer, judge, and a legal administrator. Contrary to common understanding, in the backcountry at least, the American Revolution was fought over land rather than democratic ideals. [69] The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1818. The ones who were familiar Walter’s poetry were aware of his identity, but he still persisted in keeping his facade because he was worried that his orthodox father won’t approve of his engagement in the trivial pursuit of novel writing. It has proved to be one of the best known and most influential of Scott's novels. The most generally esteemed of Scott's later fictional creations, though, are three short stories: a supernatural narrative in Scots, 'Wandering Willie's Tale' in Redgauntlet (1824), and 'The Highland Widow' and 'The Two Drovers' in Chronicles of the Canongate (1827). 0 bids. In 1778, Walter returned to Edinburgh permanently to start his private education. In 1820, in a bold move, Scott shifted both period and location for Ivanhoe (1820) to 12th-century England. There, he met John and James Ballantyne, who went on to become his partners in business. 2014. pp 25 & 34. 597, (Edinburgh, Scotland).[75]. Sir Walter SCOTT (1771 - 1832) Redgauntlet is an historical novel about a fictitious third Jacobite rebellion. Walter E. Williams. There is a statue of Scott in New York City's Central Park. Walter Scott Dunn. In To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), the protagonist's brother is made to read Walter Scott's book Ivanhoe to the ailing Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose. Obtenir la version papier de ce livre. £39.99. As the number of novels accumulated they were from time to time republished in small collections: Novels and Tales (1819: Waverley to A Tale of Montrose); Historical Romances (1822: Ivanhoe to Kenilworth); Novels and Romances (1824 [1823]: The Pirate to Quentin Durward); and two series of Tales and Romances (1827: St Ronan's Well to Woodstock; 1833: Chronicles of the Canongate to Castle Dangerous). 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