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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 …
Ivanhoe (1820). by: Walter Scott: Historical Novel (Waverley Novels)
Ivanhoe is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, first published in 1820 in three volumes and subtitled A Romance. At the time it was written it represented a shift by Scott away …
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 …
The Hero of the Waverley Novels
One of the most influential works on Sir Walter Scott, The Hero of the Waverley Novels is a model for reconstructing ideas common at a given period in time. In this book Alexander …