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One of the Waverley Novels by Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf was part of his Tales of My Landlord, 1st series (1816). It is set in 1708, in the Scottish Borders, against the background of the first uprising to be attempted by the Jacobites after the Act of Union.
- Walter Scott
- 1816
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19 de dez. de 2011 · The first volume of the Tales of My Landlord, The Black Dwarf, is set in the Liddesdale hills, an area which Scott knew intimately from the time he had spent hunting ballads for his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. The plot itself draws on a number of Border Ballads.
The Black Dwarf. Walter Scott. 3.53. 312 ratings30 reviews. The story is set just after the Union of Scotland and England (1707), in the Liddesdale hills of the Scottish Borders, familiar to Scott from his work collecting ballads for The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.
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8 de ago. de 2019 · The black dwarf. by. Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832. Publication date. 1993. Publisher. Edinburgh : University Press ; New York : Columbia University Press. Collection.
15 de fev. de 2006 · [The Black Dwarf, now almost forgotten, was once held a formidable personage by the dalesmen of the Border, where he got the blame of whatever mischief befell the sheep or cattle.
24 de nov. de 2017 · The Black Dwarf is the first of the “Tales of My Landlord” series, which also includes The Bride of Lammermoor and The Heart of Midlothian. The third preliminary chapter depicts two horsemen arriving at the Wallace Inn in Gandercleugh, where one of the horsemen relates the tale.
