
The heart of Midlothian (The world's Classics Ser.)
Classiques antérieurs au 20e siècle (romans) , Histoire (romans), Policiers (romans)
Audio avec voix humaine, Braille automatisé
Résumé
Jeanie Deans, a peasant girl, is the heroine of this eighteenth-century novel that revolves around a Scottish prison. Jeanie treks from Edinburgh to London to gain a pardon for her sister Effie, falsely accused of child-murder, but Effie escapes with… her lover. Meanwhile, when John Porteous, a guard condemned for murder, is reprieved by the queen, a mob takes justice into its own hands. 1982, 1830.