Redgauntlet

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Thomas Gainsborough, David Wilkie and Francis Wheatley. Two young men on the Solway sands in 1765, a laird with a fatal family face, and a third Jacobite rising that history does not record — because, Scott suggests, it fizzled out in a Solway inn with nobody willing to draw a sword. Half the book is letters, half is narrative, and the last chap...