Bøker av John Gibson Lockhart

The first complete edition of Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk published since its original appearance in 1819, including the original illustrations, along with extensive new annotation and full editorial apparatus. In Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk (1819) the young John Gibson Lockhart (under the guise of a visiting Welsh physician) portrayed and analysed the society of Regency Glasgow and Edinburgh in terms of German nationalist and Romantic criticism. Focusing on the networks of the law, the church, universities, fine art, antiquarianism, literature, theatre and periodical culture, he provided a series of brilliant, sometimes serious and sometimes satirical, portraits of the most notable characters of the day and the institutions they represented. His text is accompanied by a series of portrait engravings and vignettes of significant moments in his tour. The present edition provides the first complete text of this widely-allusive work published since 1819, together with a substantial Introduction, Notes and full editorial apparatus, including a detailed index and an essay on the contemporary illustrations. Peter Garside is Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He has served on the Boards of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels and Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg and has published a variety of volumes for these scholarly editions. Gillian Hughes is an independent scholar. She works as an advisory editor for the Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott's Poetry and for the New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. She has published critical editions of works by each of these writers and a biography of James Hogg (2007).

Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart - Vol.VII is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1862.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

BCC:There are various orders of greatness among which a great man may be classed. This first, because the highest, is moral greatness, where the soul binds itself to virtue, and passes its life in strict adherence to duty and truth . . . [w]hatever may befall it, nothing can shake its virtue. -J.G. Lockhart, Introduction to Life of Napoleon BonaparteBy the age of 25, a disgraced, despondent, and suicidal Napoleon Bonaparte (1799-1813) had been expelled from the army. One year later, he was the youngest general in France, and was winning victories with ragged troops who were at the point of starvation. In this exceptional biography, John Gibson Lockhart examines the life and career of the man who became France's foremost military leader and, in the process, gained the love of his people.AUTHOR BIO:John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) was a Scottish lawyer, editor, literary critic, and biographer. A major contributor to Blackwood's Magazine, Lockhart was also editor of and contributor to the Quarterly Review from 1825 to 1853. He became known as "The Scorpion" because of the fierceness of his criticism. Among his works are a volume of adaptations (1823) of ancient Spanish ballads, several novels, and the seven-volume Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott (1837-38). It is generally ranked among English biographies as second only to Boswell's Johnson.

As son-in-law and literary executor to Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) was uniquely placed to produce a definitive biography of the great poet and novelist. This celebrated seven-volume work, published in 1837-8, is based on personal memories, correspondence, and Scott's own autobiographical sketches.