Old Mortality (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Old Mortality (The ^AWorld's Classics) image
ISBN-10:

0192826301

ISBN-13:

9780192826305

Author(s): Scott,Sir Walter
Released: Nov 18, 1993
Format: Paperback, 612 pages
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Description:

Perhaps the finest and certainly the most readable of Scott's Waverley novels, Old Mortality is a swift-moving historical romance that pits an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland--the period notorious as "the killing time." Its central character, Henry Morton, finds himself torn between his love for a royalist's granddaughter and his loyalty to his oppressed countrymen.
This edition of Old Mortality is based on Scott's own marked-up text, only recently rediscovered. As well as being an exciting tale of intrigue and adventure, this novel is also a significant political document in which Scott attempts to create a new Scottish historiography.


























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