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Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since
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Walter Scott's historical novel follows Edward Waverley, a young English soldier drawn into the Jacobite rising of 1745 in the Scottish Highlands. It suits readers interested in Scottish history and the development of the historical novel.
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature. He is known for his Waverley novels (1814–1831), which were, for nearly a century, among the most popular and widely read novels in Europe. He is also known for his narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810). He greatly influenced European and American literature.
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