Waverley

Waverley

Oxford World’s Classics

Edward Waverley, a young English soldier, is caught up in the Jacobite rising of 1745-6, the last civil war fought on British soil and the attempt to reinstate the Stuart monarchy. With Waverley Scott invented the modern historical novel and profoundly influenced the development of European and American fiction for a century at least.

FC; HBJD1; HBTV

823.7

Sir Walter Scott, Claire Lamont (Professor of English Romantic Literature University of Newcastle), Kathryn Sutherland (St Annes College University of Oxford UK) – Oxford University Press