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Home / Publications / Books / Free Downloads / As It Was Told to Me

As It Was Told to Me

AS IT WAS TOLD TO ME
Three Short Stories by Walter Scott

Introduction by Daniel Cook
By:
Association for Scottish Literature, 2021

Published in: PDF, ePUB and Mobi


Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) is chiefly remembered as one of the great historical novelists, with his best-known works including Waverley (1814), Ivanhoe (1819), and Redgauntlet (1824). His experiments in short fiction, however, began before he published his first novel and throughout his career he returned to the short story form, writing tales which often contained elements of Scottish supernaturalism or the macabre. 

As It Was Told to Me, introduced by Daniel Cook, collects three of Scott’s short stories in one volume. ‘My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror’, mixes a tale of reckless romance with supernatural theatrics; ‘The Two Drovers’ offers a slow-burn exposé of national conflict; and ‘Wandering Willie’s Tale’ weaves a tale around the grisly death of a despotic laird and a trip to hell.  

CONTENTS
Introduction
My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror
The Two Drovers
Wandering Willie’s Tale
Notes
Other Resources

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Retrieving and Renewing: a poem for ASL

   Forget your literature? – forget your soul.
   If you want to see your country hale and whole
   Turn back the pages of fourteen hundred years.
   Surely not? Oh yes, did you expect woad and spears?
   In Altus Prosator the bristly blustery land
   Bursts in buzz and fouth within a grand
   Music of metrical thought. Breathes there the man
   With soul so dead—? Probably! But a scan
   Would show his fault was ignorance:
   Don’t follow him. Cosmic circumstance
   Hides in nearest, most ordinary things.
   Find Scotland – find inalienable springs.
  Edwin Morgan, 2004

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