Old Mortality (The ^AWorld's Classics) - Softcover

Scott, Sir Walter

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9780192826305: Old Mortality (The ^AWorld's Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0192826301 ISBN 13: 9780192826305

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1993

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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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Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe during his time. Jane Stevenson is at University of Sheffield. Peter Davidson is at University of Warwick.

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