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Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics
From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characters. The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor was already a legendary, disputed figure by the time Scott wrote - a heroic Scottish Robin Hood to some, an over-glamoris ...Show more
Scott on Waterloo by Sir Walter Scott
Category: History
On the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo discover a fascinating primary source: Walter Scott's accounts of his journey to the battlefield. In the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo tourists flocked from Britain to witness the scene of the most important conflict of their generation. ...Show more
The Antiquary by David Sir; Hewitt Walter Scott
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
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. Fi ...Show more
The Heart of Mid-Lothian by Sir Walter Scott
Category: Fiction
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-Loth ...Show more
The Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
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 Quee ...Show more
The Lady of the Lake - (Walter Scott Classics Collection) by Sir Walter Scott
Category: Gift
As Chief, who hears his warder call, 'To arms! the foemen storm the wall,' The antlered monarch of the waste Sprung from his heathery couch in haste. But ere his fleet career he took, The dew-drops from his flanks he shook; Like crested leader proud and high Tossed his beamed frontlet to the sky; A mome ...Show more
The Pirate by Sir Walter Scott
Category: Classics
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally importa ...Show more
The Talisman by Sir Walter Sir Walter Scott
Category: Classics
The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott.
Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
Category: Fiction
King George is on the throne, but there are those in Scotland who swear loyalty to the Stuart heir, Bonnie Prince Charlie, and are prepared to stake his claim in conflict and bloodshed. Young Edward Waverley is caught in the middle: son of a Hanoverian yet nephew and heir to a Jacobite, captain in the K ...Show more