Setting the romantic rural Scotland of the late 17th century against the prosaic cities of Glasgow and London, this story paints a tragic portait of Rob Roy MacGregor. The feudal world of the Highlands withers away under the onslaught of new commercial and political realities.

For the most popular of his Scottish romances, published at the end of 1817, Scott drew on the legends and historical anecdotes about Rob Roy MacGregor he had collected in his youth. The famous outlaw is only one of a series of vivid characters who cast their spell of the novel's hero, Frank Osbaldistone, on his journey through the wild northern territories of the new United Ki...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Rob Roy is set in the north of England and Scotland in the years before, during and after the first Jacobite rising of 1715. Rob Roy is a swashbuckling chieftain of the Clan MacGregor who is forced to become an outlaw for his alleged espousal of the Jacobite cause.

史蒂芬·列维特（Steven D. Levitt） 芝加哥大学经济学教授，约翰·贝茨·克拉克奖得主（该奖被称为“小诺贝尔奖”），被誉为“当今美国40岁以下最负盛名的经济学家”，他的声誉得到了整个经济学界的公认。列维特1989年毕业于哈佛大学，1994年在麻省理工学院取得经济学博士学位，1997年进入芝加哥大学执教，短短两年时间，列维特就成为芝加哥大学经济学院终身教授。2002年列维特被选为美国科学院经济学部委员。他还担任《政治经济学杂志》(JPE)的编辑和《经济学季刊》(OJE)的编辑。克林顿政府曾经力邀他加入自己的智囊团。小布什总统在大选的时候也把“请到列维特作为犯罪专家”作为拉拢选票的一张王牌。 史蒂芬·都伯纳（Stephen J. Dubner） 获奖作家、记者、电台和电视名人。他放弃了使他几乎成为摇滚巨星的第一个职业，成为了一名作家，曾就职于...(展开全部)