Excerpt from Greyfriars Bobby
In Bobby's day of youth, and that was in 18 58, when Queen Victoria was a happy wife and mother, with all her bairns about her knees in Windsor or Balmoral, the Grassmarket of Edin burgh was still a bit of the Middle Ages, as picturesquely decaying and Gothic as German Nuremberg. Beside the classic corn exchange, it had no modern buildings. North and south, along its greatest length, the sunken quadrangle was faced by tall, old, timber-fronted houses of stone, plastered like swallows' nests to the rocky slopes behind them.
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| ISBN: | 9781330629406 |
| Publication date: | 28th July 2018 |
| Author: | Eleanor Atkinson |
| Publisher: | Forgotten Books an imprint of Fb&c Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 304 pages |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction |