Guy Mannering

by Sir Walter Scott
Category: "Fiction - Historical"
Pages:440
Year of Publication:1815
Date Read:02/20/2001
Notes:A young Scottish lad gets kidnapped. His family's estate is sold. He returns to the neighborhood as an adult, not knowing who he is (or was).

COMMENT — If, when reading Scott, you have trouble understanding the sections written in dialect, try reading them out loud, just the way the words are spelled. It might not make the section any easier to understand, but you'll have fun and amuse your family.
My Rating: 8

Reviews for Guy Mannering

Review - Guy Mannering

There are books I enjoy having read. And then there are books I enjoy reading. This was definitely one of the latter. Scott reads a lot like Dickens, with the same proliferation of coincidences and the same final chapter in which all the characters end up related to one another somehow. If this bothers you, think of it as a type of mystery — How can the author possible link this mule herder in California with that rich widow in London and the poor orphan girl in Italy? None of those characters appear in Guy Mannering, I just put them here to make a point. He returns to the neighborhood as an adult, not knowing who he is (or was). Good story, good writing, although the plot resolved itself a bit too early in the book.
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