Waverley (Volumes I and II) - Hardcover

Scott, Sir Walter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849021635 ISBN 13: 9781849021630

Publisher: Benediction Classics, 2012

Synopsis

Waverley, Sir Walter Scott's first prose fiction, is often regarded as the first historical novel. It was wildly popular, and the first of the "Waverley Novels" that include "Ivanhoe" and "Rob Roy", that made Scott the most famous writer of his day.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Sir Walter Scott’s first novel, Waverley enjoyed tremendous popularity upon its first publication. The novel is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore Charles Edward Stuart to the British throne. It portrays the doomed rising from the perspective of the hero, Edward Waverley, who travels to Scotland and is drawn to the Jacobite cause by a clan chieftain, his beautiful sister, and Charles Edward Stuart himself.

Appendices to this edition include material on the Jacobite Rebellion and related conflicts, Scottish folklore, and a broad selection of contemporary reviews of Waverley.

About the Author:

Claire Lamont is a General Editor for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. She has published widely on Jane Austen and Romantic literature, and has edited Scott's The Heart of Midlothian and Austen's Sense and Sensibility for Oxford World's Classics.

Kathryn Sutherland is the editor of Scott's Redgauntlet, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, and Austen-Leigh's Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections for Oxford World's Classics. She has created a digitial edition of Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts (2010), the print edition of which is due to be published by OUP in 2014. She is the author of Jane Austen's Textual Lives: from Aeschylus to Bollywood (OUP, 2005).

About this edition

• Publisher: Benediction Classics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1849021635
• ISBN 13: 9781849021630
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 546