Waverley - Hardcover

Walter Scott; P D Garside

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 074869787X ISBN 13: 9780748697878

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2014

Synopsis

The first of the Waverley Novels burst anonymously upon an astonished world in 1814. Its publication marked the emergence of the modern novel in the western world and was to have an influence on the great European writers of the nineteenth century, including Tolstoy, Balzac and Stendhal. Edward Waverley is a young, cultured, but impressionable man whose sensibilities lead to his involvement in the Jacobite Rising of 1745. In his journey into Scotland, down to Derby, and back up again he witnesses the cultural and political geography of Great Britain in all its variety and in a state of political crisis. This edition of Scott's Waverley marks the bicentenary of the first publication of the novel. It presents the authoritatively edited text by Peter Garside for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, together with a new Introduction, making the novel readily available to a new generation of readers.

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Review:

Walter Scott's Waverley is not an antique, but a revolutionary work that established the novel not just as an ideal type of history but as history itself: the psychology, the furnishings, the environment of the transition from militant to commercial society. Broadview's edition will help to reinstate the vivid creativeness of Scott in imagining a past and its people - not to speak of his anticipation of multi-media only a few years before the photograph. --Christopher Harvie, historian and member of the Scottish Parliament

Book Description:

Read the first historical novel - this tale of romance and adventure during the 1745 Jacobite rebellion will stir the blood and warm the heart.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 074869787X
• ISBN 13: 9780748697878
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Professor P D Garside