Project Gutenberg 2014-01-03 Public domain in the USA. 142 Galt, John 1779 1839 Goodfellow, Robin Balwhidder, Micah Prior, Samuel, Capt. Duffle, Thomas The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy E-text prepared by Henry Flower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (https://archive.org/details/americana) "The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy" by John Galt is a novel written in the early 19th century. The story delves into the challenges faced by Claud Walkinshaw, the sole surviving heir of the Walkinshaws of Kittlestonheugh, as he navigates his family's history, loss, and ambitions to reclaim his ancestral estate. Galt portrays Scottish life and character, weaving themes of heritage, social status, and familial duties throughout the narrative. The opening of the novel introduces Claud's tragic background, revealing how his family's fortunes were ruined when his father embarked on a doomed voyage to the Darien. Raised primarily by the loyal servant Maudge Dobbie, Claud experiences the hardships of poverty while being instilled with a desire to reclaim his family's lost legacy. In the early chapters, Galt contrasts Claud’s noble aspirations with the social realities he encounters, particularly through his interactions with wealthier characters, like Provost Gorbals and his wife, who inadvertently display the social hierarchies in which Claud finds himself trapped. As Claud grows into adulthood and seeks to restore his family's honor, the tension between familial duty and personal ambition begins to take center stage in the unfolding drama. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/44573/44573-h/images/cover.jpg en Scotland -- Fiction PR Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 996105 995860 2024-09-18T15:54:29.121521 2023-09-19T11:26:04.596348 text/html text/html 1013635 2014-01-03T14:51:23 text/html 814671 2014-01-03T14:53:34 text/html application/zip 868118 2024-09-18T15:54:43.569523 application/epub+zip 878897 2024-09-18T15:54:31.715584 application/epub+zip 450520 2024-09-18T15:54:30.407491 application/epub+zip 1207910 2024-09-18T15:54:53.613437 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1085185 2024-09-18T15:54:41.611493 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 664751 2022-09-20T10:30:20.981494 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 911612 2024-09-18T15:54:27.002548 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 929572 2020-06-15T17:59:30 text/plain; charset=utf-8 349802 2020-06-15T17:59:30 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 911076 2014-01-03T14:45:17 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 347256 2014-01-03T14:45:17 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 911083 2014-01-03T14:45:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 347238 2014-01-03T14:45:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21827 2024-09-18T15:54:53.771387 application/rdf+xml 25508 2024-09-18T15:54:30.555498 image/jpeg 3126 2024-09-18T15:54:30.480517 image/jpeg 813644 2024-09-18T15:54:29.219514 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia