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Guy Mannering is an astrologer who only half-believes in his art. Instead he places his faith in patriarchal power, wealth and social position. But the Scotland of this novel is a nation in which the old hierarchies are breaking down and Guy must learn the limits of the nabob's authority in a society in which each social group—from gypsies and smugglers, to Edinburgh lawyers, landowners and Border store farmers—lives by its own laws.

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Walter Scott (1771-1832) was born and educated in Edinburgh. He is credited with establishing the form of the historical novel.

Claire Lamont is a professor of English Romantic Literature at University of Newcastle and series editor for Walter Scott in Penguin Classics.

P. D. Garside (editor) is a reader in English at University of Wales, Cardiff.

Jane Millgate is a professor of English at Victoria College, University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Walter Scott: The Making of the Novelist.