This critical biography the indifference which has surrounded Scott in this century and the distortions of his Victorian idolators to recapture the freshness of Scott as he appeared to his contemporaries. By weaving together the life and works, and examining all of Scott's best-known books
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?I have read all W. Scott?s novels at least fifty times? grand work ? great English poet ? wonderful man! I long to get drunk with him.? -- Byron
Despite his staggering output as a novelist, poet, biographer historian and anthologist, copious letters and the celebrated Journal, Walter Scott began his literary career as a middle-aged man. In the face of constant poor health, financial and domestic difficulties, he successfully combined his career as a much-loved, influential author with that of a lawyer, landowner, Border farmer, part-time soldier, and paterfamilias.
Weaving together Scott?s life with his works, A.N. Wilson has produced a lively, and contagiously enthusiastic reassessment of the writer who he believes was, ?the greatest single imaginative genius of the nineteenth century.?
A.N. Wilson is an award winning biographer who has written lives of Sir Walter Scott (John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Tolstoy (Whitbread Award for Biography), C.S. Lewis and Hilaire Belloc.
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