The Antiquary [Naxos] - Walter Scott torrent

Category: Adults, Classic, General Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Naxos

Written by Walter Scott
Read by David Rintoul
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Jonathan Oldbuck, the antiquary of the title, has a passion for the past–and delights in trying to convey it. He meets the mysteriously taciturn young Lovel and the two strike up a friendship, bonding over Roman ruins. When Lovel falls for Isabella, daughter of a local landowner, it looks like an impossible situation. Sharp, funny, gothic, romantic, and full of action, this is a thoroughly entertaining window on Scottish life in the summer of 1794: it was Scott’s intention to show the spirit of the times, and how the past affects the present–and it was his own favourite of all his novels.