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The Provost eBooks
by John Galt
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The Provost Summary
| I reflected the while of a minute before I made any reply, and then I said-- "I would hae na doubt of the matter, Mr. M'Lucre, could it be brought about to get you chosen for the delegate; but I fear, as ye are only Dean of Guild this year, that's no to be accomplished; and really, without the like of you, our borough, in the contest, may be driven to the wall." |
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| The Provost is an ironic look at the career of a small town merchant and politician. Set in the Scottish town of Irvine, in Ayrshire, it follows the life of James Pawkie, the Provost of the title. From his humble apprenticeship he progresses to owning his own shop, and eventually a large part of his home town. Simultaneously he becomes involved in local politics, and, starting with a seat on the town council he rises to be the Provost, the supreme position of local power, allowing him to manipulate everyone connected with the politics of the town to serve his own interests. Superficially a work of comedy, but with serious overtones, The Provost is widely regarded as Galt's masterpiece. |
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The Provost is an ironic look at the career of a small town merchant and politician. Set in Irvine, in Ayrshire, it follows the life of James Pawkie, the Provost of the title. From his humble apprenticeship he progresses to owning his own shop, and eventually a large part of his home town. Simultaneously he becomes involved in local politics, and, starting with a seat on the town council he rises to be the Provost, the supreme position of local power, allowing him to manipulate everyone connected with the politics of the town to serve his own interests. Superficially a work of comedy, but with serious overtones, The Provost is widely regarded as Galt's masterpiece. |
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| During a recent visit to the West Country, among other old friends we paid our respects to Mrs Pawkie, the relict of the Provost of that name, who three several times enjoyed the honour of being chief magistrate in Gudetown. Since the death of her worthy husband, and the comfortable settlement in life of her youngest daughter, Miss Jenny, who was married last year to Mr Caption, writer to the signet, she has been, as she told us herself, “beeking in the lown o’ the conquest which the gudeman had, wi’ sic an ettling o’ pains and industry, gathered for his family.” |
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