Old Mortality by Angus Calder, Walter Scott

608 pages first pub 1816 (editions)

fiction classics historical emotional medium-paced
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Perhaps the finest and certainly the most readable of Scott's Waverley novels, Old Mortality is a swift-moving historical romance that pits an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland - the pe...

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Moods

adventurous 100%
informative 100%
reflective 100%
tense 100%

Pace

medium 100%

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Plot: 100%

Strong character development?

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Loveable characters?

It's complicated: 100%

Diverse cast of characters?

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