The Bride of Lammermoor

Downloads: Under 100
Pages: 254

Read PDF online Download Save

Listen to The Bride of Lammermoor Audiobook Free

Read by Gillian Hendrie · 13 h 43 min · 36 parts

Open the player

Introduction
24:05
Chapter I
34:31
Chapter II
22:43
Chapter III
24:52
Chapter IV
15:29
Chapter V
35:01
Chapter VI
18:36
Chapter VII
34:54
Chapter VIII
26:59
Chapter IX
32:56
Chapter X
22:09
Chapter XI
15:26
Chapter XII
28:43
Chapter XIII
17:03
Chapter XIV
16:48
Chapter XV
21:35
Chapter XVI
18:38
Chapter XVII
14:28
Chapter XVIII
28:58
Chapter XIX
19:11
Chapter XX
24:13
Chapter XXI
30:32
Chapter XXII
40:52
Chapter XXIII
23:45
Chapter XXIV
19:15
Chapter XXV
31:05
Chapter XXVI
26:26
Chapter XXVII
16:46
Chapter XXVIII
8:38
Chapter XXIX
16:34
Chapter XXX
16:56
Chapter XXXI
17:05
Chapter XXXII
8:38
Chapter XXXIII
22:41
Chapter XXXIV
26:13
Chapter XXXV
21:14

The Bride of Lammermoor (1819) is a public domain work.

The audio edition streams in the page. There is no audio file to download.

Browse all free audiobooks

About this book

Promises, family authority and wounded pride shape Walter Scott's historical novel of Scotland. Published in 1819, The Bride of Lammermoor brings love and arranged marriage into a world where family standing and political loyalties carry weight. Scott's introduction recounts the older Scottish family story behind the novel, including a secret pledge and a mother who presses her daughter toward another match. That account gives the fiction a troubling context of private feeling constrained by public expectations.

The dialogue brings those pressures into sharp focus. Captain Craigengelt delivers a challenge on behalf of Bucklaw to the Master of Ravenswood, turning a dispute over hospitality into a test of honour. Ravenswood questions both the message and its messenger. Readers interested in historical romance will find a study of how pride, obligation and family influence make personal choices difficult.

About the author

Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish poet and novelist who effectively invented the historical novel with works like Ivanhoe and Waverley. Enormously popular across Europe, he shaped how the nineteenth century imagined the past.