Overview
Set in the 1730s in a Scotland uneasily united with England, this novel talks about different kinds of justice - that meted out by the Edinburgh mob in the lynching of Captain Porteous, and that encountered by a terrified young girl suspected of killing her baby. It is based on an anonymous letter received by the author in 1817.
- | By (Author): Walter Scott
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- | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- | Publication Date: Aug 25, 1994
- | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
- | Number of Pages: 864 pages
- | Language: Not available
- | Binding: Paperback|Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0140431292
- | ISBN-13: 9780140431292