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One of the Waverley Novels by Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf was part of his Tales of My Landlord, 1st series (1816). It is set in 1708, in the Scottish Borders, against the background of the first uprising to be attempted by the Jacobites after the Act of Union.
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Dec 19, 2011 · This page provides a brief summary of the plot of Scott's novel The Black Dwarf , contained in Tales of My Landlord , the background to its creation and how it was received at the time by critics and the public.
Feb 15, 2006 · [The Black Dwarf, now almost forgotten, was once held a formidable personage by the dalesmen of the Border, where he got the blame of whatever mischief befell the sheep or cattle. “He was,” says Dr. Leyden, who makes considerable use of him in the ballad called the Cowt of Keeldar, “a fairy of the most malignant order—the genuine ...
The Black Dwarf. Walter Scott. 3.53. 312 ratings30 reviews. The story is set just after the Union of Scotland and England (1707), in the Liddesdale hills of the Scottish Borders, familiar to Scott from his work collecting ballads for The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.
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Feb 15, 2006 · Feb 15, 2006. Most Recently Updated. Jan 27, 2021. Copyright Status. Public domain in the USA. Downloads. 230 downloads in the last 30 days. Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
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Dec 14, 2018 · Paperback – December 14, 2018. As Hobbie Elliot and Patrick Earnscliff went across the Liddesdale hills of the Scottish Borders, going to Hobbies home, the moon suddenly revealed the figure of a human dwarf, who, on being spoken to, refused their offers of assistance.
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The black dwarf. by. Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832. Publication date. 1993. Publisher. Edinburgh : University Press ; New York : Columbia University Press. Collection.
