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Doom Castle
Neil Munro
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Doom Castle is the story of young Count Victor's journey to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion, searching for a traitor to the Jacobite cause as well as a mysterious man under the name of "Drimdarroch", whom he swore revenge. After a perilous journey, Count Victor arrives at Doom Castle as a guest of the enigmatic Baron of Doom, his two strange servitors and his beautiful daughter.
Doom Castle is the story of young Count Victor's journey to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion, searching for a traitor to the Jacobite cause as well as a mysterious man under the name of "Drimdarroch", whom he swore revenge. After a perilous journey, Count Victor arrives at Doom Castle as a guest of the enigmatic Baron of Doom, his two strange servitors and his beautiful daughter.
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He found the Baron seated by the fire, and ready to take a suspiciously loud but abstracted interest in his ramble.
"Well, Count," said he, "ye've seen the castle of the King o' the Hielan's, as we call him, have you? And what think ye of MacCailen's quarters?"
Montaiglon lounged to a chair, threw a careless glance at his interrogator, pulled the ever upright moustache, and calmly confessed them charming.
A bitter smile came on the face of his host. "They might well be that," said he. "There's many a picking there." And then he became garrulous upon the tale of his house and family, that seemed to have been dogged by misfortune for a century and a half; that had owned once many of these lush glens, the shoulders of these steep. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
I first read Doom Castle years ago when I was in high school, and though I remember enjoying it, a recent re-read proved that almost none of the plot stayed with me over the years- most likely because I found the prose excessively wordy and difficult to get through. Since I now possess a much wider
An enjoyable, post-Culloden tale of Jacobite spies, romance, legal wranglings and revenge. Despite these subjects, the book takes on a light-hearted approach, thanks in part to the joie-de-vivre of the main character and the wonderfully grumpy Mungo Boyd who surely steals the show. The thick Fife di
This is a historical novel, first published in 1901, set in 1755 about a french count who comes to Argyll seeking revenge. There are some fascinating characters and some exciting scenes but overall I found the story a bit too sentimental.