The Bride of Lammermoor

Including a modern critical assessment on Sir Walter Scott's works. *** Some loves are doomed from the first glance. Some families carry wounds that will not heal. And some stories, once begun, can only end in tragedy. Set against the wild, mist-shrouded landscape of the Scottish Borders, The Bride of Lammermoor is Walter Scott at his most powerful and most heartbreaking. Edgar Ravenswood is the proud, brooding heir to a ruined house - his family's estates stripped away by the scheming Sir William Ashton, a man who trades in law and ambition rather than honor. When Edgar saves the life of Ashton's daughter Lucy, the two fall into a love that neither of them can resist and neither of them can afford. What follows is a story of passion thwarted by pride, of families locked in hatred, and of a young woman crushed between forces far beyond her control. Scott wrote many novels, but none with quite this darkness at its center. The Bride of Lammermoor burns with a tragic intensity that sets it apart from his more swashbuckling romances - closer in spirit to Greek tragedy than to Highland adventure. It inspired Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor, and it has haunted readers ever since its publication in 1819. Atmospheric, propulsive, and deeply moving, this is the novel that proves Scott could do more than entertain. He could break your heart. *** The series "Large Print Reader's Choice" features classic books with a font size of at least 16 points. This font size is not only highly recommended and useful for visually impaired readers, but generally improves letter and word recognition and reading comprehension. Large print books make your reading experience a more satisfying one.