by Walter Scott · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140621488
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«Waverley» is the historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (491 pages, in English).
Novel set during the Jacobite rising of 1745. Edward Waverley, a young English soldier from an aristocratic family, travels from England to Scotland and encounters the Lowlands, the Highlands, and the military conflict. Between romance and divided loyalties, he discovers the world and his place in it.
The novel was originally published in 1814. This edition belongs to the Penguin Popular Classics collection.
For fans of historical fiction and classics of British literature.
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature. He is known for his Waverley novels (1814–1831), which were, for nearly a century, among the most popular and widely read novels in Europe. He is also known for his narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810). He greatly influenced European and American literature.
