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OXFORD
SIR WALTER SCOTT
WAVERLEY
Edited with an Introduction by Claire Lamont

`Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones... I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it — but fear I must.`
— That was Jane Austen’s comment on the appearance of Scott’s (supposedly anonymous) first novel.

Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since was published in 1814, and it immediately established Scott as a popular and successful novelist.

Waverley, the first ‘historical novel’ in English, 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 makes his way into the Highlands, where he meets a chieftain and his clansmen. Before long Waverley is caught up in the Jacobite cause, offering his allegiance to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, and to the dauntless Flora Mac-Ivor. The hero’s journey of self-discovery takes place in a country torn by civil war, as the political outlook of the eighteenth century meets the older social organization of the Highlands in violent confrontation.

The text is that of the first edition, corrected from the manuscript.
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`The most romantic parts of this narrative are precisely those which have a foundation in fact.`

Edward Waverley, a young English soldier in the Hanoverian army, is sent to Scotland where he finds himself caught up in events that quickly transform from the stuff of romance into nightmare. His character is fashioned through his experience of the Jacobite rising of 1745-6, the last civil war fought on British soil and the unsuccessful attempt to reinstate the Stuart monarchy, represented by Prince Charles Edward. Waverley`s love for the spirited Flora MacIvor and his romantic nature increasingly pull him towards the Jacobite cause, and test his loyalty to the utmost.

With Waverley, Scott invented the historical novel in its modern form and profoundly influenced the development of the European and American novel for a century at least. Waverley asks the reader to consider how history is shaped, who owns it, and what it means to live in it - questions as vital at the beginning of the twenty-first century as the nineteenth.

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