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...
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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. Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology of Sir Walter Scott -- Volume I -- Volume II -- Volume III -- Preface to the Third Edition [1814] -- Prefaces and Introduction to the 1829 Edition -- Scott's Notes to the 1829 Edition, with Additional Notes to the 1870 and 1892 Editions -- Editor's Notes -- Glossary.
