“’Pass on your way,’ reiterated the object of their curiosity; ‘the breath of your human bodies poisons the air around me, the sound of your human voices goes through my ears like sharp bodkins.’” That is how we meet the star of Walter Scott’s The Black Dwarf. It is one of the dwarf’s less misanthropic utterances. He has a dark heart indeed. Walter Scott is curiously neglected these days, having once been more popular that Jane Austen. His earliest works are tales of Scotland around the … [Read more...] about The Black Dwarf Reviewed by the Author
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