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Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott, Ian Duncan

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More than a century after the Norman Conquest, England remains a colony of foreign warlords. The dissolute Prince John plots to seize his brother's crown, his barons terrorize the country, and the mysterious outlaw Robin Hood haunts the ancient greenwood. The secret return of King Richard and the disinherited Saxon...
 
Rob Roy

Rob Roy by Walter Scott, Ian Duncan

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For the most popular of his Scottish romances, published at the end of 1817, Scott drew on the legends and historical anecdotes about Rob Roy MacGregor he had collected in his youth. The famous outlaw is only one of a series of vivid characters who cast their spell of the novel's hero, Frank Osbaldistone, on his...
 
Waverley

Waverley by Walter Scott

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This is a title in an inexpensive range of classics in the "Penguin Popular Classics" series.
 
Quentin Durward

Quentin Durward by Susan Manning, Walter Scott

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Quentin Durward (1823) was Scott's first `European' novel, and an experiment in transferring the historical romance to foreign soil. Fifteenth-century France, the French Revolution of 1789, and contemporary Britain come together in this sharp-eyed novel of political expediency and intrigue. The young Scottish...
 
The Talisman

The Talisman by Walter Scott, John Ellis

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The second of Tales of the Crusaders, The Talisman is set in Palestine during the Third Crusade (1189 - 92). Scott constructs a story of chivalric action, apparently adopting a medieval romance view of the similarities in the values of both sides. But disguise is the leading theme of the tale: it is not just that...
 
The Bride of Lammermoor

The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott, Fiona Robertson

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The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the corrupt Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland are frustrated by the complexities of the legal and political situations following the 1707 Act of Union, and by his passion for his enemy's beautiful daughter Lucy. First...
 
Old Mortality

Old Mortality by Walter Scott, Angus Calder

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The story of two sets of "cruel and bloody bigots" at war in late 17th century Scotland.
 
The Pirate

The Pirate by Mark Weinstein, Alison Lumsden, Walter Scott

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No historical figures appear in The Pirate, and there are no historical events, but it is still an historical novel because it dramatises those 'corners of time' where an old era is coming to an end, and a new is beginning. The novel is set in Orkney and Shetland in 1689, and for the northern isles the 'Glorious...
 
The Fair Maid of Perth

The Fair Maid of Perth by Andrew Hook, Walter Scott, D. Mackenzie

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The Fair Maid of Perth centres on the merchant classes of Perth in the fourteenth century, and their commitment to the pacific values of trade, in a bloody and brutal era in which no right to life is recognised, and in which the Scottish nobles fight for control of the weak Scottish monarchy, and clans are prepared...
 
The Heart of Mid-Lothian

The Heart of Mid-Lothian by Walter Scott, Tony Inglis, Tony Inglis

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Jeanie Deans, a dairymaid, decides she must walk to London to gain an audience with the Queen. Her sister is to be executed for infanticide and, while refusing to lie to help her case, Jeanie is desperate for a reprieve. Set in the 1730s in a Scotland uneasily united with England, "The Heart of Mid-Lothian"...
 
Kenilworth

Kenilworth by Walter Scott, J. H. Alexander

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The Edinburgh edition of Walter Scott's "Waverley" novels presents an edition for modern readers incorporating an essay on the text, an emendation list, explanatory notes and a glossary. This edition hopes to bring to its audience what the first readers might have been offered had the process of transmission from...
 
The Heart of Midlothian

The Heart of Midlothian by Walter Scott, Claire Lamont

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This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infuriated by the actions of John Porteous, Captain of the Guard, and when they hear that his death has been reprieved by the distant monarch they ignore the Queen and...
 
Redgauntlet

Redgauntlet by Walter Scott, Kathryn Sutherland

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Scott's Lady of the Lake

Scott's Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

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Napoleon: The Exceptional Biography

Napoleon: The Exceptional Biography by Richard Michaelis, Walter Scott

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Six years after the death of Napoleon, Sir Walter Scott wrote a hugely successful biography that was instantly controversial and led to him being challenged to duels. It was the ideal combination between the man who revolutionised literary Europe and the man who transformed the face of politics. "The Times"...
 
The Highland Widow

The Highland Widow by Walter Scott

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A party on the Highland Tour, taking a scenic break from their journey come upon a miserable hut hid away among some cliffs; the ladies, upon enquiring what lies before them, hear the wretched tale of Elspat MacTavish, the Highland Widow, condemned forever to live penitent and alone. Condemned by her love for her...
 
Expository Discourses on the Book of Ruth (1848)

Expository Discourses on the Book of Ruth (1848) by Walter Scott, Thomas Northcote Toller

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON II. RUTH. CHAPTER II. In this narrative which may well be denominated beautiful, on account of its artless- ness, simplicity,...
 
Chronicles of the Canongate: Saint Valentines Day or the Fair Maid of Perth (1832)

Chronicles of the Canongate: Saint Valentines Day or the Fair Maid of Perth (1832) by Walter Scott

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: cartel, I am sure we ought all to be thankful that he has not the will to do so." " The Duke of Rothsay," said Douglas, who seemed...
 
Chronicles of the Canongate: Saint Valentines Day or the Fair Maid of Perth (1832)

Chronicles of the Canongate: Saint Valentines Day or the Fair Maid of Perth (1832) by Walter Scott

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: cartel, I am sure we ought all to be thankful that he has not the will to do so." " The Duke of Rothsay," said Douglas, who seemed...
 
The Betrothed

The Betrothed by David Hewitt, Walter Scott, J. H. Alexander, John Ellis

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Set at the time of the Third Crusade (1189 - 92), The Betrothed is the first of Scott's Tales of the Crusaders. The betrothed is Eveline, daughter of a Norman noble, who is a victim of the Crusade in that her intended husband is required by the Church to fulfil his vow to join the war and departs for three years....
 
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