The Black Dwarf pdf

沃尔特·斯科特爵士：苏格兰小说家和诗人。罗伊”等著名小说至今仍在阅读。斯科特于 1771 年出生于苏格兰，父母是贵族。斯科特从他的姑姑珍妮那里学会了阅读，她给他讲了许多历史故事和传说，这些故事和传说形成了他的意识，发展了他的想象力，从而在他的文学作品中得到了明显的影响。斯科特学习成为像他父亲一样的律师，英国文学的学习激发了他的热情，他十二岁在“爱丁堡大学”学习古典文学，二十一岁完成了法律学业并工作作为一名律师不离开文学，因此他阅读了许多西班牙文、意大利文、法文、德文和拉丁文等多种语言的书籍。1802年他开始出版他的诗歌。随着经济收入的增加，他开始一点一点地投身于文学，于是于公元1822年创作了著名的历史小说《艾芬豪》，此后他被称为现代小说之父，并被封为文豪。传记作者。斯科特记忆力敏锐，对历史研究特别感兴趣，尤其是他在小说中关注的中世纪时期。他是最早强调人物与周围环境之间关系的作家之一。他还在作品中混合了现实主义、乡土色彩和浪漫主义，他的作品对十九世纪的文学产生了明显的影响。他的巨额财务费用是他破产的原因；这迫使他加倍努力写作和写作以偿还债务，但持续而艰苦的努力使他生病了；他的健康状况恶化，于 1832 年去世，享年 61 岁。

The Black Dwarf pdf 沃尔特·斯科特

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. The main character is based on David Ritchie, whom Scott met in the autumn of 1797. In the tale, the dwarf is Sir Edward Mauley, a hermit regarded by the locals as being in league with the Devil, who becomes embroiled in a complex tale of love, revenge, betrayal, Jacobite schemes and a threatened forced marriage.
Scott began the novel well, "but tired of the ground I had trode so often before... I quarrelled with my story, & bungled up a conclusion." Critics and public found it poor in comparison with its popular companion Old Mortality. One of the harshest reviews was in the Quarterly Review, written anonymously by Scott himself.
The introduction to The Black Dwarf attributes the work to Jedediah Cleishbotham, whom Scott had invented as a fictional editor of the Landlord series. It is here that we have the most complete view of this character.