In the canon
Chronicles of the Canongate
Walter Scott
- Form
- Form Short Story Collection
- Year
- Year 1827
- Pages
- Pages 400
Chrystal Croftangry comes home to Edinburgh ruined and takes rooms in the Canongate, which runs down to Holyrood and the sanctuary where a bankrupt could sleep beyond his creditors' reach. Scott invented him in the wreck of the year that took his fortune and his wife, and signed it with his own name at last.
a Scottish gentleman of the old school, with a fortune, temper, and person, rather the worse for wear.
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