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REDGAUNTLET by Sir Walter Scott, Bart.


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CONTENTS.

Introduction
Text
Letters I - XIII
Chapters I - XXIII
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary


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INTRODUCTION

The Jacobite enthusiasm of the eighteenth century, particularly
during the rebellion of 1745, afforded a theme, perhaps the
finest that could be selected for fictitious composition, founded
upon real or probable incident. This civil war and its
remarkable events were remembered by the existing generation