For the most popular of his Scottish romances,
published at the end of 1817, Scott drew on the legends
and historical anecdotes about Rob Roy MacGregor he had
collected in his youth. The famous outlaw is only one of
a series of vivid characters who cast their spell of the
novel's hero, Frank Osbaldistone, on his journey through
the wild northern territories of the new United Kingdom.
Banished from his father's house, falling hopelessly in
love with the spirited Diana Vernon, Frank becomes
involved in he conspiracy surrounding the disastrous
Jacobite rising of 1715. His adventures take him to
'MacGregor's country', across the Highland Line, where
he finds cruelty, heartbreak, and some unlikely friends.
By turns thrilling and comic, Rob Roy contains Scott's
most sophisticated treatment of the Scottish Highlands
as an imaginary space where the modern and the primitive
come together. Newly edited from the 'Magnum Opus' text
of 1830, this edition includes full explanatory notes
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