Old Mortality, Volume 1.
Walter Scott
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Description
Sir Walter Scott wrote the Covenanter novel Old Mortality. Volume one is the first half of that work. The editor's introduction traces the book to May 1816. Joseph Train brought Scott stories from Galloway that spring. A schoolmaster's joke helped create the narrator figure.
Henry Morton enters a land torn by religious war. Old Mortality tends the graves of fallen martyrs. His wanderings give the novel its haunting frame. Scott blends real history with invented lives and loves. Readers meet both zeal and mercy in this volume. Train also brought a Rob Roy relic in his hand. Scott's den held a famed portrait of Claverhouse, Train found.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Walter Scott |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 559 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |