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The Fair Maid of Perth (or St. Valentine's Day) is an 1828 novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Inspired by the strange, but historically true, story of the Battle of the North Inch, it is set in Perth (known at the time as Saint John's Toun, i.e. John's Town) and other parts of Scotland around 1400.
19 de dez. de 2011 · Learn about the composition, sources, synopsis, reception, and links of Scott's 1828 novel The Fair Maid of Perth, based on a legendary battle and a love story. Explore the historical and literary background of the novel and its characters, such as Robert III, Rothsay, and Henry Smith.
- Walter Scott
- 1828
La jolie fille de Perth (The Fair Maid of Perth) is an opera in four acts by Georges Bizet (1838–1875), from a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jules Adenis, after the 1828 novel The Fair Maid of Perth by Sir Walter Scott.
In Walter Scott's The Fair Maid of Perth, feeble King Robert III is failing to stop his beloved country being torn apart by warring clans and pillaging nobles - chaos reigns supreme. When our heroine, Catharine Glover, suffers heartbreak and tragedy at the hands of the vengeful Earl of March, a terrible dilemma presents itself.
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27 de jul. de 2009 · Startled from her repose by the noise of the affray, the Fair Maid of Perth had listened in breathless terror to the sounds of violence and outcry which arose from the street. She had sunk on her knees to pray for assistance, and when she distinguished the voices of neighbours and friends collected for her protection, she remained in ...
20 de ago. de 2019 · A historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1999 by Edinburgh University Press. The book is about the love story of a young woman and a soldier in the Scottish Wars of Independence.
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