With Waverley Scott invented the modern historical novel and profoundly influenced the development of European and American fiction for a century at least.
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ten thousand a-year Mark A. Weinstein suggests that this echoes Mrs Bennet's exclamation on hearing of her daughter Elizabeth's engagement to Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (1813), in Novels, ed. R. W. Chapman, 3rd edn (1932), ...
There was not the doctor in Perth or Stirling would look near the poor lad ; and I cannot blame them, for Donald had been misguggled by ane of these doctors about Paris, and he swore he would fling the first into the loch that he ...
Sir Walter Scott’s Jacobite epic, Waverley, is the thrilling tale of the 1745 campaign to restore the House of Stuart to the throne of England.
... into custody of the provost-marshal for immediate execution, in the event of his surviving the chastisement inflicted by his Chieftain. ... requested he might be left to his disposal, and promised his punishment should be exemplary.
"Edward Waverley is a young, cultured man whose sensibilities lead to his involvement in the Jacobite Rising of 1745. In his journey into Scotland, down to Derby, and back up...
This edition of Waverley by Sir Walter Scott now features an eye-catching cover design and is printed in a font that is both modern and readable.
Appendices to this edition include material on the Jacobite Rebellion and related conflicts, Scottish folklore, and a broad selection of contemporary reviews of Waverley.
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...
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