Redgauntlet
by Walter Scott
1824
ISBN/ASIN: 1598184784
Number of pages: 380
Description:
Scott's 1824 Redgauntlet is the final novel in his series about the doomed Jacobite cause. This warm and wonderfully relaxed novel celebrating, among other things, friendship, is also a penetrating psychological study of attachment to a lost cause.
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