SCOTT, WALTER
On the auspicious night that Guy Mannering is shown to the house of the Bertrams of Ellengowan, the Bertrams` heir is born, and Mannering, a skeptical astrologer, predicts the child`s future. Five years later the prophecy is fulfilled, and the heir, Harry Bertram, becomes the center of a plot to rob the boy of his inheritance. Harry`s subsequent struggles are set against a backdrop of chaos and upheaval in a socially fragmented Scotland where everyone, from landowners to gypsies, is searching for their rightful place.
Walter Scott (Edimburgo, 1771- Abbotsford, 1832), maestro del diálogo y la descripción, influyó en los novelistas románticos de su tiempo y también en los músicos y pintores que recrearon su obra. Sus principales obras son, además de El pirata, Waverley, El anticuario, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe y El talismán.