The Men of the Moss-Hags
In The Men of the Moss-Hags, S.R. Crockett takes as his theme the persecution of the Covenanters in seventeenth-century Scotland, a favourite subject of Scottish historical novelists. Steeping himself in the documentary sources and oral traditions of 'The Killing Time', Crockett weaves a thrilling adventure romance, carrying the reader off with him on a perilous journey across the moss-hags - the peaty bogs of the Galloway moorland. With a new introduction by Richard D. Jackson, which outlines Crockett's rivalry over the subject with Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as his treatment of sources and the publishing history of the novel, this edit…
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- ISBN: 978-1-904999-60-7
- EAN: 9781904999607
- Produktnummer: 4335040
- Verlag: Kennedy & Boyd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 276 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.6 cm 428 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 428
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