Обложка книги Peveril of the Peak by Sir Walter Scott, Fiction, Historical, Literary, Classics, Sir Walter Scott  
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2006
504 страницы
Категория: Детективы
ISBN: 9781598184792
Язык: Английский

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📗 Most of the story takes place in Derbyshire, London, and on the Isle of Man. The title refers to Peveril Castle in Castleton, Derbyshire. "Here is a plot without a drop of blood; and all the elements of a romance, without its conclusion," says King Charles II near the end of Peveril of the Peak. As well he might! The book's about a popish plot to do him in, and pits puritan against catholic in a nation that'd just passed through the worst of its reformation. Peveril of the Peak was written in 1822 -- that is, in Scott's middle period, a time when he wrote books by reconstructing history, as he'd first done in Ivanhoe.
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