Waverley (World's Classics) - Softcover

Scott, Sir Walter

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9780192817228: Waverley (World's Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0192817221 ISBN 13: 9780192817228

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1986

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Set during the Jacobite rising in Scotland in 1745, this novel springs from Scott's childhood recollections and his desire to preserve in writing the features of life in the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland. Waverley was first published anonymously in 1814 and was Scott's first novel.

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About the Author:

Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1771, educated there and called to the bar in 1792. Having developed an early interest in BOrder tales and ballads he spent much of his free time exploring the Border country, and in 1796 published his first work - a translation of Burger's 'Lenore' - anonymously. He began to publish wroks under his own name in 1802 while holiday well-respected offices such as Sheriff of Selkirkshire. Having refused the laureateship in 1813, and being eclipsed by Byron as a poet, Scott began to write novels - again anonymously to start with. He died in 1832.

Andrew Hook is Bradley Professor of English literature at the University of Glasgow. He has also edited (with Judith Hook) Charlotte Bronte's Shirley for Penguin Classics.

Synopsis:

Edward Waverly, a young English soldier stationed in Scotland in 1745 during the Jacobite rising, is convinced to join the cause of Prince Charles Edward Stuart.

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