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To: yarddog
I've read "Quentin Durward"!

I went through a Walter Scott phase as a pre-teen. The novels, not the poetry. I never could hack the poetry.

If you like RLS I'm sure you've read "Kidnapped" (Alan Breck is another one of your good/evil characters, though more good I think) but have you read the sequel ("David Balfour" in America, "Catriona" in Britain). A political thriller with asides into Scots folklore. The Lord Advocate Prestongrange is the good/evil character there (Sim Fraser and his mirror image Tod Lapraik being 100 percent evil!) "He was kind to me as any father, yet I ever thought him as false as a cracked bell."

190 posted on 02/03/2014 4:50:09 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: AnAmericanMother

I read “Kidnapped” quite a few years ago. Not only Alan Breck Stewart but the Captain and the ship’s drunken brute of a quartermaster or whatever his title was, have dual personalities.

Even David Balfour’s miserly Uncle isn’t all bad. I liked all the Disney movies based on Stevenson’s books. Of course Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are the ultimate dual personalities.


203 posted on 02/03/2014 5:00:34 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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