Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels: The Tale of Old Mortality (Hardcover)

from mbmackay

A very early (1816) historical novel set in Scotland in 1679 during the religious wars against the last Stuart kings. Scott is recognised as having created the genre of historical novels in the Waverley series, and this book seems like a fully fledged modern historical novel - a mix of fictional ...

from mbmackay

Re-read as part of a project to read all Scott's historical novels in order of publication. A good historical novel, but written in an era, and for an audience, that would have had a better background in the actual events of the time. I found myself heading to Wikipedia at the end of the book to ...

from mbmackay

A very early (1816) historical novel set in Scotland in 1679 during the religious wars against the last Stuart kings. Scott is recognised as having created the genre of historical novels in the Waverley series, and this book seems like a fully fledged modern historical novel - a mix of fictional ...

from hermannstone

better than any other Scott novel I know of, except perhaps _Ivanhoe_. I am always amazed at how dextrously Scott gives his characters, and especially his heroes, lines which fit so exactly the character and the situation -- as if they could not have said anything else. (Like the phrases in a Moz...

from hermannstone

better than any other Scott novel I know of, except perhaps _Ivanhoe_. I am always amazed at how dextrously Scott gives his characters, and especially his heroes, lines which fit so exactly the character and the situation -- as if they could not have said anything else. (Like the phrases in a Moz...