Hakutulokset: waverley novels;
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Introductions and Notes from the Magnum Opus
The Magnum Opus edition, as it was familiarly know, defined the final shape of Scott’s fiction for the 19th century. Scott’s introductions are semi-autobiographical essays in which …
Castle Dangerous
Castle Dangerous is the realisation of a thirty-year old project of Scott's to retell a story found in Barbour's Brus. Set in the early fourteenth century during the Scottish Wars …
The Waverley Novels
The Waverley Novels
The Black Dwarf
Set in south-west Scotland in the immediate aftermath of the 1707 Union, The Black Dwarf was intended to be a story about the first, abortive, Jacobite uprising of 1708. Instead …
The Tale of Old Mortality
The Tale of Old Mortality describes the lives - and often violent deaths - the hopes, and the struggles, of the Covenanters in late seventeenth-century Scotland. A tale of …
The Waverley Novels; Volume 24
A dictionary of the characters in the Waverley novels of Sir Walter Scott
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that …
Quentin Durward
Quentin Durward is a young Scotsman seeking fame and fortune in the France of Louis XI in the fifteenth century. He knows little and understands less, but Scott represents his …
The Shorter Fiction
Scott wrote short stories throughout his career, some included within novels, others published separately in periodicals. This collection of the stories from periodicals extends …