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Walter Scott
1771 - 1832
Walter Scott
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Primary

Waverley aka Tis Sixty Years Since (1814)

Guy Mannering (1815)

The Antiquary (1816)

Rob Roy (1817)

Old Mortality: Tales of My Landlord (1816)

The Black Dwarf: Tales of My Landlord (1816)

A legend of Montrose (1819)

The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)

The Heart of Midlothian (1818)

Ivanhoe (1819)

The Monastery (1820)

The Abbot (1820)

Kenilworth (1821)

Pirate (1822)

The Fortunes of Nigel (1822)

Peveril Of The Peak (1823)

Quentin Durward (1823)

St. Ronan's Well (1823)

Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century (1824)

Tales of the Crusaders - The Betrothed (1825)

Woodstock: Or The Cavalier (1826)

Tales of the Crusaders - The Talisman (1825)

The Fair Maid of Perth: or St. Valentine's Day Chronicles of the Canongate -
Second Series and The Antiquary (1828)

Anne of Geierstein: or The Maiden of the Mist (1829)

Count Robert Of Paris (1832)

The Highland Widow (1827)

The Surgeon's Daughter (1827)

The Eve of St. John (1800)

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1803)

The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)

Marmion (1808)

The Lady in the Lake (1810)

The Bridal of Triermain (1813)

Rokeby (1813)

Halidon Hill (1822)

Chronicles of the Canongate (1827)

Castle Dangerous (1832)

Collections

Ballads And Lyrical Pieces (1806)

Selected Poems (poems) (1972)

The Supernatural Stories of Sir Walter Scott (1977)

Recent Editions

Waverley, ed. Andrew Hook, (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972; reprinted, 1985).

Old Mortality, ed. Angus Calder, (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975).

Rob Roy (London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., Everyman's Library, 1986;

The Heart of Midlothian, ed. Tony Inglis, (Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1994).

Ivanhoe, ed. Ian Duncan, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, World's Classics Series, 1996)

The Two Drovers and Other Stories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, World's Classics Series, 1987).

The Waverley Novels (Oxford University Press, 1912-25); Oxford editon, 24 vols. The Supernatural Short Stories, ed. Michael Hayes, (London: John Calder, 1977).

The Prefaces to the Waverley Novels, ed. Mark A.Weinstein, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978).

The Letters of Malachi Malagrowther, ed. Paul Scott, (Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1981).

Secondary

Buchan, John, Sir Walter Scott (London: Cassell, 1932)

Lockhart, J. G., Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (Edinburgh: R. Cadell, 1837-38)

Sutherland, J.A., The Life of Sir Walter Scott: A Critical Biography (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995)

Carswell, Donald, Sir Walter: A Four-Part Study in Biography (London: John Murray, 1930

Daiches, David, Sir Walter Scott and his World (London: Thames & Hudson, 1971).

Calder, Angus and Calder, Jenni, Scott (London: Evans Brothers, 1969).

Cockshut, Anthony O.J., The Achievement of Walter Scott (London: Collins, 1969).

Crockett, William S., The Scott Originals: An Account of Notables and Worthies, The Originals of Characters in the Waverley Novels (Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, 1912).

Hart, Francis R., Scott's Novels: The Plotting of Historic Survival (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1966).

Muir, Edwin, Scott and Scotland: The Predicament of the Scottish Writer(London: Routledge, 1936).

Shaw, Harry E (ed.), Critical essays on Sir Walter Scott: the Waverley novels (New York: G.K. Hall; London: Prentice Hall International, 1996).

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