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St. Ronan's Well
Sir Walter Scott
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And first they kiss, and then they quarrel.
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If the reader has attended much to the manners of the canine race, he may have remarked the very different manner in which the individuals of the different sexes carry on their quarrels among each other. The females are testy, petulant, and very apt to indulge their impatient dislike of each other's presence, or the spirit of rivalry which it produces, in a sudden bark and snap, which last is generally made as much at advantage as possible. But these ebullitions of peevishness lead to no very serious or prosecuted conflict; the affair begins and ends in a moment. Not so the ire of the male dogs, which, once produced and excited by growls of mutual offence and defiance, leads generally to a fierce and obstinate contest; in which, if the parties be d. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
I would have given this book 4 stars because I really enjoyed reading it, but the end was tragic and melodramatic.
This one was a bit of a departure from Scott's usual subject matter, being set only 20 years prior to the time it was written. It was not well accepted by Scott's contemporary audience, who was used to explorations of historical characters and periods. For the modern reader there is little differenc
Not my favorite Sir Walter Scott. It had a comedic element and combined it with melancholy aspects. Clara was a weak character. Touchwood the mysterious elderly Nabob was the one I liked the most. The setting of a spa with elitist wannabes was amusing. Goodness they were a vitriolic bunch. Meg Dodds
Ah yes, novels set in spas: a well mined seam. Austen (Northanger Abbey and Persuasion), Smollett (Humphrey Clinker), and Thomas Mann (The Magic Mountain) are all better known and, I fear, better constructed than this one. The biggest problem is that Scott was forced to rewrite a section to obscure
The writing was rich as always and I can think of no novelist writing in English (?) for whom I more frequently need to resort to a dictionary. I thought the yarn was over spun however and the entire novel was very much written for a leisurely age and a leisurely generation, which could and would ta
I enjoyed this novel, it was completely different from anything Scott has written before. Rich with characters, great description of people and locale, and humor throughout. Scott is not for everyone, you need patience, you can't read him with other distractions going on. I think he loses readers wh
Scott's most maligned novel but it shouldn't be! Unlike the rest of his works, St Ronan's Well was set in contemporary Scotland as Scott went head to head with Jane Austen to write a comedy of manners. He doesn't quite succeed in that as the novel is an uneasy mix of dark, gothic tragedy and drawing
I'm getting to quite enjoy reading Scott, fourteen novels in.....the problem with this novel is that Scott was apparently forced to change some elements because of public morals. I'm glad I found that out before reading it, or I would have agreed with this from one of the characters late on in the n