A Waverley novel by Sir Walter Scott, set among the Northern Isles and blending romance, adventure, and island folklore. It follows the fortunes of young islanders and the unsettling arrival of seafaring strangers. Listen for its atmospheric sea-and-shore setting and Scott's evocation of old customs and suspenseful romance.
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THE PIRATE.
Nothing in him——
But doth suffer a sea-change.
Tempest.
BIBLIOPHILE EDITION
This Edition of the Works of
Sir Walter Scott, Bart, is
limited to One Thousand
Numbered and Signed Sets,
of which this is
Number ...
University Library
Association
Bibliophile Edition THE WAVERLEY NOVELS WITH NEW INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES AND GLOSSARIES BY ANDREW LANG THE PIRATE BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, Bart. ILLUSTRATED UƿƗ΄ŧǡǪƗǵΏ LƗœǡĵǡΏ AǪǪLjŕƗĵǵƗLjƿ PHILADELPHIA CLjǙΏǡƗƄƒǵ, 1893 BΏ EǪǵŧǪ & LĵǼǡƗĵǵ Andrew Lang Edition.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
THE PIRATE.
VLjƯǼƽŧ I.
PAGE
MLjǡŠĵǼƿǵ Ɨƿ YŧƯƯLj΅ƯŧΏ’Ǫ CLjǵǵĵƄŧ Frontispiece
Tƒŧ S΅LjǡŠ Dĵƿŕŧ
234
VLjƯǼƽŧ II.
MƗƿƿĵ Ljƿ ǵƒŧ CƯƗff
103
Tƒŧ PƗǡĵǵŧ’Ǫ CLjǼƿŕƗƯ
208
MƗƿƿĵ ǵĵƫƗƿƄ ǵƒŧ PƗǪǵLjƯ
250
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
TO
THE PIRATE.
The circumstances in which “The Pirate” was composed have for the Editor a peculiar interest. He has many times scribbled at the old bureau in Chiefswood whereon Sir Walter worked at his novel, and sat in summer weather beneath the great tree on the lawn where
Erskine used to read the fresh chapters to Lockhart and his wife, while the burn murmured by from the Rhymer’s Glen. So little altered is the cottage of Chiefswood by the addition of a gabled wing in the same red stone as the older portion, so charmed a quiet has the place, in the
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