Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels: Rob Roy (Paperback)

from antiquary

I was strucj by the fact that when I saw the film of this name, it stuck much more closely to the historical facts about Rob Roy (as given in an appendix here) than the novel does, inwhic Roby Roy appears only as a friend of the hero

from Miguelnunonave

Walter Scott's best book, in my opinion. Greatly entertaining, whilst teaching you a thing or two about Scottish history.

from rab1953

I was a little surprised in reading this novel at the perspectives reflected in the narrator's story. Scott, writing in the early 18th century, takes the voice of an English businessman writing a reminiscing letter to a friend about his adventures as a youth early in the 17th century. Occasionall...

from mbmackay

Sixth of the series of "Waverley novels" by Walter Scott. This one is set in 1715/16 around the Jacobite unrest of the period. The protagonist is a young Englishman who comes into chance contact with Rob Roy on a trip to family in the far north of England. After some complicated plot twists, the ...

from

This is the third Scott novel I have read, after Ivanhoe and Kenilworth, and, as before, I greatly enjoyed the author's beautiful use of the English language to convey his story, though in this case a lot of the dialogue is in Highland or Lowland Scots, which is harder for me to read; while I cou...