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The heart of Mid-Lothian

Set in the 1730s in a Scotland uneasily united with England, this novel talks about different kinds of justice - that meted out by the Edinburgh mob in the lynching of Captain Porteous, and that encountered by a terrified young girl suspected of killing her baby. It is based on an anonymous letter received by the author in 1817.
Print Book, English, 1994
Penguin, London, 1994
LVI, 793 p. ; 20 cm.
9780140431292, 0140431292
911286062