The Highland Widow; The Two Drovers; The Surgeon's Daughter, Etc (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Highland Widow; The Two Drovers; The Surgeon's Daughter, Etc (Classic Reprint) written by Walter Scott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Highland Widow; The Two Drovers; The Surgeon's Daughter, Etc The preceding volume of this Collection concluded the last of the pieces originally published under the nonizis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the writer to continue longer in the possession of his incognito, were communicated in 1827, in the Introduction to the first series of Chronicles of the Canongate, - consisting (besides a biographical sketch of the imaginary chron icler) of three tales, entitled The Highland Widow, The Two Drovers, and The Surgeon's Daughter In the present volume the two first named of these pieces are included, together with three detached stories, which appeared the year after in the elegant compilation called the Keepsake. The Surgeon's Daughter it i.' thought better to defer until a succeeding volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.