View Sir Walter Scott Waverley Pics. Waverley by walter scott adapted by mike harris. Because scott did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, the series takes its name from waverley.

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Edinburgh's waverley railway station bears its name to one of his novels. 'walter scott has no business to. A gripping tale of love, war and divided loyalties with scotland in open rebellion.

After being posted to dundee, edward eventually befriends chieftain of the.

For nearly a century, they were among the most popular and widely read novels in europe. Waverley is widely considered the first historical novel—that is, the first work that treated the past not primarily as ornament on a tale of. Edward waverley, a young british officer who holds his commission in the army of george ii of england during the bloody days in 1745 when charles edward, the pretender, is trying to gain the british throne. Scott in 1805 is writing 60 years after the final and disastrous jacobite rebellion or rising of 1745.