The Pirate is set at the end of the seventeenth century, a few decades earlier than the real-life events, on which they are loosely based. The editors of the recent Edinburgh Edition of the novel, Mark Weinstein and Alison Lumsden, convincingly argue that the plot unfurls between July and August 1689, against the back-drop of the Glorious Revolution. By moving events further into the past, Scott was able to portray tension between the native Norse stock of the Northern Isles and the incoming Scots lairds. He is thus able to portray the old order succumbing to the new both locally and nationally.
- ISBN10 130415419X
- ISBN13 9781304154194
- Publish Date 20 June 2013
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 January 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook (OEB)
- Language English