Lymond Chronicles - Reading Aids

Reading Aids

Dunnett helped in the compiling of The Dorothy Dunnett Companion (1994, ISBN 978-0-7181-3775-5) and wrote some of the entries for The Dorothy Dunnett Companion II (2002, ISBN 978-0-7181-4546-0), by Elspeth Morrison. These books provide background information to historical characters and events featured in the Lymond Chronicles and The House of Niccolò, as well as explanations of classical allusions and literary and other quotations used in the two series, notes to sources of these citations, and many maps. The second volume also contains a bibliography of many of the hundreds of primary and secondary sources Dunnett used in her historical research.

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