{"title": "Rob Roy", "key": "/works/OL863587W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL75235A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": "A historical novel first published in 1817, this was one of the first popular novels to attempt the use of regional dialect, in this case both Scottish highland and lowland dialects with a glossary of Scottish words. The story is set immediately before the Jacobite Rising of 1715 and follows the narrator, an English merchant, to Scotland in pursuit of a debt. Here he encounters Rob Roy MacGregor, a larger-than-life character fighting for social justice for his kinsmen.", "covers": [8240340, 1826834, 1826822, 1758939, 8003683, 9302701, 10631250, 11284969, 11361294, 11365309, 11372365, 11527122, 11918888, 13076146, 13786117, 12524810, 14513698, 13531108], "subject_places": ["Scotland", "Edinburgh", "Northumberland"], "subjects": ["Scottish fiction", "Jacobite Rising", "Fiction", "Outlaws", "Scottish Authors", "History", "British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)", "Scotland, fiction", "Fiction, historical", "Large type books", "Historical", "Biographical", "Historical fiction", "Senior fiction", "Scotland - History", "Fiction, historical, general", "Rob Roy, 1671-1734", "Outlaws--fiction", "Pr5322 .r6 2008", "823.7", "Rob Roy, in fiction", "English literature", "Long Now Manual for Civilization"], "subject_people": ["Rob Roy (1671-1734)", "Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)", "Walter Scott (1771-1832)"], "subject_times": ["1689-1745"], "first_publish_date": "June 1998", "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "You have requested me, my dear friend, to bestow some of that leisure with which Providence has blessed the decline of my life in registering the hazards and difficulties which attended its commencement."}, "excerpts": [{"excerpt": "You have requested me, my dear friend, to bestow some of that leisure with which Providence has blessed the decline of my life in registering the hazards and difficulties which attended its commencement."}], "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T05:57:24.456944"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-03-25T07:51:31.726423"}}