Quentin Durward
by
Walter Scott
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0748605797
ISBN-13
9780748605798
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 10th, 2001
Print length
595 Pages
Weight
818 grams
Dimensions
22.20 x 14.90 x 3.50 cms
Product Classification:
Literary essaysClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
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Quentin Durward is a young Scotsman seeking fame and fortune in the France of Louis XI in the fifteenth century.
Find Out What Scott Really WroteGoing back to the original manuscripts, a team of scholars has uncovered what Scott originally wrote and intended his public to read before errors, misreadings and expurgations crept in during production. Quentin Durward is a young Scotsman seeking fame and fortune in the France of Louis XI in the fifteenth century. He knows little and understands less, but Scott represents his ignorance and naiveté as useful to ''the most sagacious prince in Europe'' who needs servants motivated solely by the desire for coin and credit and lacking any interest in France which would interfere with the execution of his political aims. In Quentin Durward Scott studies the first modern state in the process of destroying the European feudal system.By far the most important of Scott''s sources for Quentin Durward is the splendid Memoirs of Philippe de Comines. Comines, who has more than a walk-on role in the novel itself, was trusted councillor of Charles the Bold of Burgundy until 1472, when
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