Waverley: or 'Tis Sixty Years Since (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Scott, Sir Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199538026 ISBN 13: 9780199538027

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

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 this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0199538026
• ISBN 13: 9780199538027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496
• Editor: Lamont Claire