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izydark's review against another edition
emotional
funny
mysterious
relaxing
medium-paced
4.75
Mira, no sé qué decirte del libro. Aún estoy intentado descifrar si es una comedia o una tragedia. Sin embargo, esa es la gracia de la vida real, patética y despiadada. La novia de Lammermoor me ha divertido mucho pese a estar escrito hace siglos.
thegreenchair's review against another edition
3.0
The first two-thirds of the book was quite engaging, but I was disappointed by the end, which felt like it had been wrapped up quickly to finally put an end to the story.
velocitygirl14's review against another edition
3.0
It's very regional, very old fashioned and quaint looking back at it. It's hilarious how pressed a whole lot of these guys are. Oh and the whiskey. Jesus do they drink a whole lot of this. Other than that, it was a good read.
smcleish's review against another edition
3.0
Originally published on my blog here in October 2001.
Scott was once the most famous writer of his generation, and his novels were still quite widely read until relatively recently. Today, though, most of them have pretty much lapsed into obscurity. The Bride of Lammermoor, for example, is probably better known today through the opera Donizetti based on it.
The Bride of Lammermoor is basically a melodramatic variation on [b:Romeo and Juliet|18135|Romeo and Juliet|William Shakespeare|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327872146s/18135.jpg|3349450]. As the son of a Jacobite, Edgar, Master of Ravenswood, has lost his estates to Whig lawyer Sir William Ashton. He lives in poverty in an romantic ruined castle, Wolf's Crag, and falls in love with Lucy, William Ashton's daughter. Ashton himself is reasonably willing to permit the match, as he has no personal animus against Ravenswood and as he moreover forsees an imminent improvement in the political fortunes of the Tories. His wife has other plans for Lucy, though, and so she remains implacably opposed to the match.
While there is much in the novel which has dated, The Bride of Lammermoor still remains exciting in part. The opera simlifies the novel, leaving out many of the minor characters, and this is something which is going to improve it. The servant characters are mainly used by Scott as opportunities for atmosphere or humour, and to a modern reader they seem two dimensional and their use heavy handed. This is particularly the case with Ravenswood's servant Caleb Balderston, who spends the entire novel making extraordinary efforts to conceal the very obvious diminution in the family fortunes.
Scott was once the most famous writer of his generation, and his novels were still quite widely read until relatively recently. Today, though, most of them have pretty much lapsed into obscurity. The Bride of Lammermoor, for example, is probably better known today through the opera Donizetti based on it.
The Bride of Lammermoor is basically a melodramatic variation on [b:Romeo and Juliet|18135|Romeo and Juliet|William Shakespeare|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327872146s/18135.jpg|3349450]. As the son of a Jacobite, Edgar, Master of Ravenswood, has lost his estates to Whig lawyer Sir William Ashton. He lives in poverty in an romantic ruined castle, Wolf's Crag, and falls in love with Lucy, William Ashton's daughter. Ashton himself is reasonably willing to permit the match, as he has no personal animus against Ravenswood and as he moreover forsees an imminent improvement in the political fortunes of the Tories. His wife has other plans for Lucy, though, and so she remains implacably opposed to the match.
While there is much in the novel which has dated, The Bride of Lammermoor still remains exciting in part. The opera simlifies the novel, leaving out many of the minor characters, and this is something which is going to improve it. The servant characters are mainly used by Scott as opportunities for atmosphere or humour, and to a modern reader they seem two dimensional and their use heavy handed. This is particularly the case with Ravenswood's servant Caleb Balderston, who spends the entire novel making extraordinary efforts to conceal the very obvious diminution in the family fortunes.
clairen's review against another edition
2.0
Prova definitiva che Walter Scott per me è un'assoluta palla al piede e che devo tenermi alla larga: pensavo non ci fossero rivali al tedio di Ivanhoe e invece devo ricredermi. Come in quel caso, il personaggio che dà il titolo al romanzo è incolore e potrebbe stare lì come non starci.
Tra l'altro, visti alcuni momenti che a me sono sembrati comici (come i due tizi litigano per chi deve duellare per primo con Ravenswood, o la corsa delle carrozze per arrivare a casa degli Ashton), non ho capito se devo prendere il dramma sul serio e se Scott era un troll ante litteram.
Tra l'altro, visti alcuni momenti che a me sono sembrati comici (come i due tizi litigano per chi deve duellare per primo con Ravenswood, o la corsa delle carrozze per arrivare a casa degli Ashton), non ho capito se devo prendere il dramma sul serio e se Scott era un troll ante litteram.
lnatal's review against another edition
4.0
Free download available at Project Gutenberg.
From BBC Radio 4 - Classical Serial:
Mike Harris adapts Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor.
The novel is set in the Lammermuir Hills of south-east Scotland at the beginning of the 18th Century and tells of a tragic love affair between young Lucy Ashton and her family's enemy Edgar Ravenswood.
The Ashtons and Ravenswoods have been enemies for centuries - but will a proposed union between the warring families finally bring peace?
Music Composed and performed by Ross Hughes and Esben Tjalve
Violin and viola - Oliver Langford
Written by Mike Harris
Produced and Directed by Clive Brill
A Brill production for BBC Radio 4.
From BBC Radio 4 - Classical Serial:
Mike Harris adapts Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor.
The novel is set in the Lammermuir Hills of south-east Scotland at the beginning of the 18th Century and tells of a tragic love affair between young Lucy Ashton and her family's enemy Edgar Ravenswood.
The Ashtons and Ravenswoods have been enemies for centuries - but will a proposed union between the warring families finally bring peace?
Music Composed and performed by Ross Hughes and Esben Tjalve
Violin and viola - Oliver Langford
Written by Mike Harris
Produced and Directed by Clive Brill
A Brill production for BBC Radio 4.
assimbya's review against another edition
4.0
While the novel's focus occasionally seems a little off (most readers, I imagine, would be far more interested in the the thoughts of the title character than in the property disputes and hunting outings which take up a large portion of the book), the sections dealing with the central characters (particularly Lucy, Edgar, and Lady Ashton) are well drawn and fascinating. The melodrama escalates in that perfect restraint that only writers of the nineteenth century seem able to manage, culminating in chilling and intriguing final scenes. The characters are more assuredly not those of Donizetti's brilliant opera, but they are no less interesting for that.
eddie's review against another edition
4.0
My first Walter Scott - read on the 200th anniversary of its first publication in 1819.
It would be very easy to pick this book to pieces - a too slow start and an overly rapid, abrupt ending; minor characters that hog the stage; melodrama galore - but I actually thoroughly enjoyed this magnificent page-turning potboiler. Scott has narrative skills to burn and excels in vivid settings and dramatic scenes.
It would be very easy to pick this book to pieces - a too slow start and an overly rapid, abrupt ending; minor characters that hog the stage; melodrama galore - but I actually thoroughly enjoyed this magnificent page-turning potboiler. Scott has narrative skills to burn and excels in vivid settings and dramatic scenes.
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