The Pirate
Original title: The pirate
earliest edition we have, 1996 Fredonia Books (NL), 2001 paperback 600 pages
Edinburgh edition of the Waverley novels
"No historical figures appear in The Pirate, and there are no historical events, but it is still an historical novel because it dramatises those 'corners of time' where an old era is coming to an end, and a new era is beginning. The novel is set in Orkney and Shetland in 1689, and for the northern isles the 'Glorious Revolution' actually means the beginning of the cultural dominance of Scotland and the advent of Engl...
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