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中洛锡安之心 The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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    • 1736年，爱丁堡因为处决了两名走私犯而爆发了骚乱。城市护卫队的长官命令士兵火烧民众，杀死了几个老百姓。波蒂厄斯后来被愤怒的群众杀死。书中司各特着重介绍了民众杀死波蒂厄斯的细节：他被放到烘干机的杆子上，被炒年糕当地布商的商店借来的生子绑着。一会儿之后，他被拖出来剥掉了身上的睡袍和包裹他头部的T恤，但是，这帮暴徒并没有绑缚他的双手，他还可以自由漳扎，暴徒砍掉了波蒂厄斯的胳膊和肩膀，暴徒还尝试引火烧他的双脚，他过了一会儿被放下来殴打，然后再次被吊上去，不一会儿就在1736年9月7日的午夜时分，波蒂厄斯死了。

  • 内容简介

    • 1736年，爱丁堡因为处决了两名走私犯而爆发了骚乱。城市护卫队的长官命令士兵火烧民众，杀死了几个老百姓。波蒂厄斯后来被愤怒的群众杀死。书中司各特着重介绍了民众杀死波蒂厄斯的细节：他被放到烘干机的杆子上，被炒年糕当地布商的商店借来的生子绑着。一会儿之后，他被拖出来剥掉了身上的睡袍和包裹他头部的T恤，但是，这帮暴徒并没有绑缚他的双手，他还可以自由漳扎，暴徒砍掉了波蒂厄斯的胳膊和肩膀，暴徒还尝试引火烧他的双脚，他过了一会儿被放下来殴打，然后再次被吊上去，不一会儿就在1736年9月7日的午夜时分，波蒂厄斯死了。

    The title of the book refers to the Old Tolbooth Prison in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the time in the heart of the Scottish county of Midlothian. The historical backdrop was the event known as the Porteous Riots. In 1736, a riot broke out in Edinburgh over the execution of two smugglers. The Captain of the City Guards, Captain John Porteous, ordered the soldiers to fire into the crowd, killing several people. Porteous was later killed by a lynch mob who stormed the Old Tolbooth. Scott's telling emphasises the gruesome details of the killing: he is lynched from a dyer's pole, using a rope taken from a local draper's shop. After a short while he is dragged down and stripped of his nightgown and shirt, which is then wrapped around his head before he was hauled up again. However, the mob had not tied his hands and, as he struggled free, they break his arm and shoulder, while another attempts to set light to his naked foot. He is taken down a further time and cruelly beaten before being hung up again, and dies a short while later, just before midnight on 7 September 1736.

  • 作者简介

    • 沃尔特·司各特爵士，英国著名的历史小说家和诗人。他生于苏格兰的爱丁堡市，自幼患有小儿麻痹症，爱丁堡大学法律系毕业后，当过副郡长，他以苏格兰为背景的诗歌十分有名，但拜伦出现后，他意识到无法超越，转行开始写作历史小说，终于成为英语历史文学的一代鼻祖。

    Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSE (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet.Scott was the first modern English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America. His novels and poetry are still read, and many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature. Famous titles include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor.

  • 目录
    • Chapter FIRST.
    • Chapter SECOND.
    • Chapter THIRD.
    • Chapter FOURTH.
    • Chapter FIFTH.
    • Chapter SIXTH.
    • Chapter SEVENTH
    • Chapter EIGHTH.
    • Chapter NINTH.
    • Chapter TENTH.
    • Chapter ELEVENTH.
    • Chapter TWELFTH.
    • Chapter THIRTEENTH.
    • Chapter FOURTEENTH.
    • Chapter FIFTEENTH.
    • Chapter SIXTEENTH.
    • Chapter SEVENTEENTH.
    • Chapter EIGHTEENTH.
    • Chapter NINETEENTH.
    • Chapter TWENTIETH.
    • Chapter TWENTY-FIRST.
    • Chapter TWENTY-SECOND.
    • Chapter TWENTY-THIRD.
    • Chapter TWENTY-FOURTH.
    • Chapter TWENTY-FIFTH.
    • Chapter TWENTY-SIXTH.
    • Chapter TWENTY-SEVENTH.
    • Chapter TWENTY-EIGHTH.
    • Chapter TWENTY-NINTH.
    • Chapter THIRTIETH.
    • Chapter THIRTY-FIRST.
    • Chapter THIRTY-SECOND.
    • Chapter THIRTY-THIRD.
    • Chapter THIRTY-FOURTH.
    • Chapter THIRTY-FIFTH.
    • Chapter THIRTY-SIXTH
    • Chapter THIRTY-SEVENTH.
    • Chapter THIRTY-EIGHTH.
    • Chapter THIRTY-NINTH.
    • Chapter FORTIETH.
    • Chapter FORTY-FIRST.
    • Chapter FORTY-SECOND.
    • Chapter FORTY-THIRD.
    • Chapter FORTY-FOURTH.
    • Chapter FORTY-FIFTH.
    • Chapter FORTY-SIXTH.
    • Chapter FORTY-SEVENTH.
    • Chapter FORTY-EIGHTH.
    • Chapter FORTY-NINTH.
    • Chapter FIFTIETH.
    • Chapter FIFTY-FIRST.
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