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Old Mortality is one of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott. Set in south west Scotland, it forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the 1st series of his Tales of My Landlord (1816).
- Scott, Walter, Sir, Douglas S. Mack
- 1816
Old Mortality, novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1816 and a masterpiece in the genre of historical romance. The story takes place in Scotland in 1679 during a time of political turmoil, when the dissenting Covenanters were up in arms against the English King Charles II.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
23 de out. de 2008 · Publisher. London, New York Thomas Nelson and Sons. Collection. americana. Book from the collections of. Harvard University. Language. English. Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Synopsis. Old Mortality is set in 1679 against the backdrop of the military campaign waged by John Graham of Claverhouse's government forces against a Covenanting army. The Covenanters had risen against Charles II in protest against the reintroduction of Episcopalian church government.
16 de fev. de 2003 · “Old Mortality” was the last novel written by Scott before the malady which tormented his stoicism in 1817-1820. Every reader has his own favourite, but few will place this glorious tale lower than second in the list of his incomparable romances.
3.77. 548 ratings65 reviews. 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 period notorious as "the killing time."
22 de ago. de 2004 · Old Mortality, Complete by Walter Scott. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… In Historical Fiction. About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
