The Fair Maid of Perth The Fair Maid of Perth

The Fair Maid of Perth

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Publisher Description

The Fair Maid of Perth (or St. Valentine's Day) is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. Inspired by the strange story of the Battle of the North Inch, it is set in Perth and other parts of Scotland around 1400. The fair maid of the title is Catharine Glover, daughter of a glovemaker in Perth, who kisses Henry Gow/Smith, the armourer, while he is sleeping, on Valentine's Day. But Catharine has caught the eye of the Duke of Rothesay, and when Gow interrupts an attempted abduction, the armourer is drawn simultaneously into royal intrigue and highland feud.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1828
1 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
739
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SIZE
461.6
KB

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