Walter Scott

Quentin Durward è un romanzo storico di Walter Scott, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1823. Basato su fatti storici realmente avvenuti, l'assedio di Liegi e l'assassinio del vescovo Luigi di Borbone, il romanzo, che vede come protagonista la figura inventata dell'arciere scozzese Quentin Durward, secondo l'autore …

Old Mortality is a novel by Sir Walter Scott set in the period 1679–89 in south west Scotland. It forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the 1st series of Scott's Tales of My Landlord. The two novels were published together in 1816. Old Mortality is considered one of Scott's best novels. It was originally titled The Tale …

Redgauntlet è un romanzo di Walter Scott, scritto e pubblicato nel 1824. In esso l'autore abbandona momentaneamente gli sfondi inglesi o medievali dei romanzi immediatamente precedenti, per tornare all'ambiente dei suoi esordi come narratore; Redgauntlet è l'ultimo dei romanzi giacobiti, imperniati sul conflitto fra i …

Woodstock, or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one is a historical novel by Walter Scott. Set just after the English Civil War, it was inspired by the legend of the Good Devil of Woodstock, which in 1649 supposedly tormented parliamentary commissioners who had taken possession of a royal …

Peveril of the Peak is the longest novel by Sir Walter Scott. Along with Ivanhoe, Woodstock and Kenilworth, this is one of Scott's English novels, with the main action taking place around 1678.

Saint Ronan's Well is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. It is the only novel he wrote with a 19th-century setting.

The Monastery: a Romance is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott. Along with The Abbot, it is one of Scott's Tales from Benedictine Sources and is set in the time of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Elizabethan period.