Peveril of the Peak

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
• 'Here is a plot without a drop of blood; and all the elements of a romance, without its conclusion', comments the King towards the end of Scott's long... Lees meer

Woodstock

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels | nr. 19
• Woodstock opens in farce, yet it is one of Scott's darkest novels. It deals with revolution, to Scott the most disturbing of all subjects: 'it appears... Lees meer

Ivanhoe

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels | nr. 8
• The first of Scott's Waverley novels burst upon an astonished world in 1814. Its publication marked the emergence of the modern novel in the western w... Lees meer

Rob Roy

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels | nr. 5
• Rob Roy is set in 1715, but it is less concerned with the Jacobite Rising than with the economic and political conditions which brought it about, and ... Lees meer

The Shorter Fiction

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
• Scott wrote short stories throughout his career, some included within novels, others published separately in periodicals. This collection of the stori... Lees meer

A Legend of the Wars of Montrose

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels | nr. 7
• Against the background of Montrose's campaign of 1644-5, this spirited novel centres on one of Scott's most memorable creations - Sir Dugald Dalgetty ... Lees meer

Introductions and Notes from the Magnum Opus

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
• Between 1829 and 1833 the first complete edition of Scott's fiction appeared, in 48 volumes issued one a month, each illustrated with two engravings, ... Lees meer

Saint Ronan's Well

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
• Meg Dods, a sentimental virago, keeps a rundown inn in a derelict Tweedale village, while the young Laird is living way beyond his means. When a nearb... Lees meer

The Fortunes of Nigel

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
• Set at the end of the reign of James VI and I, The Fortunes of Nigel sits among Walter Scott's richest creations in political insight, range of charac... Lees meer

The Talisman

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
• 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 act... Lees meer

The Fair Maid of Perth

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
• 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 b... Lees meer

Redgauntlet

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
• In the summer of 1765 Darsie Latimer sets out to discover the secret of his parentage in a journey to the wilds of Dumfriesshire. But very soon he dis... Lees meer

The Pirate

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
• No historical figures appear in The Pirate , and there are no historical events, but it is still an historical novel because it dramatises those 'corn... Lees meer

Anne of Geierstein

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
• Anne of Geierstein (1829) is set in Central Europe in the fifteenth century, but it is a remarkably modern novel, for the central issues are the polit... Lees meer

The Antiquary

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
• The third of the Waverley Novels is dominated by two old men, Jonathan Oldbuck (the Antiquary of the title) and the beggar Edie Ochiltree. Together th... Lees meer

Guy Mannering

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels | nr. 2
• Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer , first published in 1815, was Walter Scott's second novel. Guy Mannering only half-believes in his art, but does bel... Lees meer

The Bride of Lammermoor

Walter Scott, J H Alexander

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels | nr. 7
• This new edition restores the action of the novel to 1703, before the Union of Scotland and England in 1707, rather than after it, which is where Scot... Lees meer

The Betrothed

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
• 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 ... Lees meer

Chronicles of the Canongate

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
• Chronicles of the Canongate is unique among Scott's works as it is his only collection of shorter fiction. It contains his best-known tales, 'The High... Lees meer

Count Robert of Paris

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
• Count Robert of Paris , condemned by Scott's printer as 'altogether a failure', was later prepared for publication by his son-in-law, J. G. Lockhart, ... Lees meer

The Monastery

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
• Set on the eve of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland, The Monastery is full of supernatural events, theological conflict, and humour. Located in t... Lees meer

The Tale of Old Mortality

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
• The Tale of Old Mortality describes the lives - and often violent deaths - the hopes, and the struggles, of the Covenanters in late seventeenth-centur... Lees meer

The Heart of Mid-Lothian

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels | nr. 6
• The Heart of Mid-Lothian is precisely focused on the trials for murder of John Porteous and of Effie Deans in 1736 and 1737. Yet it is a chronicle--Sc... Lees meer

Castle Dangerous

Walter Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
• 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 ce... Lees meer