The Pirate

Sir Walter Scott

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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Editions we hold

The Pirate paperback · 2005 · Adamant Media Corporation · 522 pages · 9781402158650
The Pirate paperback · 2004 · Kessinger Publishing · 604 pages · 9780766187740
The Pirate paperback · 2001 · Fredonia Books (NL) · 600 pages · 9781589632073
The Pirate paperback · 2001 · Adamant Media Corporation · 194 pages · 9780543769572
The pirate edition · 2000 · Edinburgh University Press · 607 pages
The Pirate paperback · 1996 · Shetland Times Ltd · 520 pages · 9781898852179

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