
Language
en
Duration
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Steven desJardins, Carla Foust, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2009-12-24
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
1779–1839
A sharp-eyed Scottish novelist and commentator, he is remembered for bringing ordinary community life and the social changes of his time into fiction. His career also stretched beyond literature into business and colonial development, giving his writing an unusually practical edge.
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