This carefully crafted ebook: «Rob Roy + The Heart of Midlothian (2 Unabridged and fully Illustrated Classics with Introductory Essay and Notes by Andrew Lang)» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Rob Roy (1817) is a historical novel by Walter Scott. It is a tale of adventure in the 18th century, set in the Scottish highlands, whose hero is the legendary maverick outlaw Rob Roy Macgregor. Though Rob Roy is not the lead character, his personality and actions are key to the novel's development. The Heart of Midlothian is a novel of Scottish history by Sir Walter Scott, published in four volumes in 1818. It is often considered to be his finest novel. The Old Tolbooth prison in Edinburgh is called «the heart of Midlothian,» and there Effie Deans is held on charges of having murdered her illegitimate son. Her sister, Jeanie Deans, makes a dangerous journey through outlaw-infested regions to London to seek the queen's pardon for Effie. Justice and Scottish Presbyterianism are discussed at length, and issues of conscience provide the novel's themes. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a prolific Scottish novelist, poet, historian, and biographer who is often considered both the inventor and the greatest practitioner of the historical novel.
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Walter Scott. Rob Roy + The Heart of Midlothian
Rob Roy + The Heart of Midlothian
Table of Contents
Rob Roy
Illustrations
Advertisement to the First Edition
Introduction —-(1829)
Appendix to Introduction
No. I.— Advertisement for the Apprehension of Rob Roy (From the Edinburgh Evening Courant, June 18 to June 21, A.D. 1732. No. 1058.)
No. II.— Letters from and to the Duke of Montrose respecting Rob Roy’s Arrest of Mr. Grahame of Killearn
Copy of Grahame of Killearn’s letter, enclosed in the preceding
No. III.— Challenge by Rob Roy
No. IV.— Letter from Robert Campbell, alias M’Gregor, commonly Called Rob Roy, to Field-Marshal Wade, Then receiving the submission of disaffected Chieftains and Clans.29
No. IVa.— Letter. Escape of Rob Roy from the Duke of Athole
No. V.— Highland Wooing
No. VI— Ghlune Dhu
Editor’s Introduction to Rob Roy
Volume One. Chapter First
Chapter Second
Chapter Third
Chapter Fourth
Chapter Fifth
Chapter Sixth
Chapter Seventh
Chapter Eighth
Chapter Ninth
Chapter Tenth
Chapter Eleventh
Chapter Twelfth
Chapter Thirteenth
Chapter Fourteenth
Chapter Fifteenth
Chapter Sixteenth
Chapter Seventeenth
Volume Two
Chapter First
Chapter Second
Chapter Third
Chapter Fourth
Chapter Fifth
Chapter Sixth
Chapter Seventh
Chapter Eighth
Chapter Ninth
Chapter Tenth
Chapter Eleventh
Chapter Twelfth
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteenth
Chapter Nineteenth
Chapter Twentieth
Chapter Twenty-First
Chapter Twenty-Second
Postscript
The Heart of Midlothian
List of Plates
Editor’s Introduction to the Heart of Mid-Lothian
Introduction to the Heart of Mid-Lothian —(1830)
Postscript
Introductory
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
The Porteous Mob
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
L’Envoy,
By Jedediah Cleishbotham
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Sir Walter Scott
(2 Unabridged and fully Illustrated Classics with Introductory Essay and Notes by Andrew Lang)
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After this temporary removal from his old haunts, Rob Roy was sent by the Earl of Mar to Aberdeen, to raise, it is believed, a part of the clan Gregor, which is settled in that country. These men were of his own family (the race of the Ciar Mhor). They were the descendants of about three hundred MacGregors whom the Earl of Murray, about the year 1624, transported from his estates in Menteith to oppose against his enemies the MacIntoshes, a race as hardy and restless as they were themselves.
But while in the city of Aberdeen, Rob Roy met a relation of a very different class and character from those whom he was sent to summon to arms. This was Dr. James Gregory (by descent a MacGregor), the patriarch of a dynasty of professors distinguished for literary and scientific talent, and the grandfather of the late eminent physician and accomplished scholar, Professor Gregory of Edinburgh. This gentleman was at the time Professor of Medicine in King’s College, Aberdeen, and son of Dr. James Gregory, distinguished in science as the inventor of the reflecting telescope. With such a family it may seem our friend Rob could have had little communion. But civil war is a species of misery which introduces men to strange bed-fellows. Dr. Gregory thought it a point of prudence to claim kindred, at so critical a period, with a man so formidable and influential. He invited Rob Roy to his house, and treated him with so much kindness, that he produced in his generous bosom a degree of gratitude which seemed likely to occasion very inconvenient effects.
