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Waverley by Walter Scott

464 pages first pub 1814 (editions)

fiction classics historical challenging reflective slow-paced
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The first ‘historical novel’ in English, it is set at the time of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Edward Waverley, a young English soldier in the Hanoverian army, is sent to Scotland. He visits a Jacobite laird in the Lowlands of Perthshire, and then...

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