31 Complete Works of Sir Walter ScottA Legend of MontroseBride of LammermoorChronicles of the CanongateGuy ManneringIvanhoeKenilworthLady of the LakeMarmionMy Aunt Margaret's MirrorOld MortalityPeveril of the PeakQuentin DurwardRed Cap TalesRedgauntletRob RoySt. Ronan's WellThe AbbotThe AntiquaryThe BetrothedThe Black DwarfThe Dramatic Works of...

Sir Walter Scott's Journal emerges as a candid, year-by-year record of his final years, charting the years 1825 to 1832 with a tone both intimate and elegiac. Framed by the repeated reminder to "Work while it is called day," it captures a life lived under pressure: literary labor, family affection, social observation, and the growing shadow of debt and mortality. Scott writes with striking self-awareness about his habits, health, and small domestic comforts, then turns with equal sharpness...

Sir Walter Scott, the Scottish novelist, poet, historian and biographer, is often regarded as the inventor of the historical novel, who produced a wide body of literary works, having a profound impact on world literature. This comprehensive eBook presents Scott’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 7)* Beautifully illu...

George Saintsbury's editorial preface frames this reissue of Sir Walter Scott's great Dryden edition as both a restoration and a refinement: he preserves Scott's structure, corrects errors, adds newly available letters, bibliographic notes, appendices, and other rare materials, and keeps commentary secondary to Dryden's own text. Scott's original preface insists that, after more than a century, Dryden is finally being offered in a complete and uniform form, including even the lesser comedi...

A grand Scottish voyage begins aboard the Royal Mail steamer Dunottar Castle, whose 1890 trial cruise becomes both a feat of modern engineering and a celebration of Highland scenery. With a warm foreword by W. Scott Dalgleish and illustrations by fellow passengers and artists, the narrative traces a sweeping route from the Clyde to the Hebrides, Skye, Orkney, and back to the Firth of Forth, combining travel memoir, nautical adventure, and affectionate companionship. Day by day, the journey...

The Abbot opens with Sir Walter Scott's self-aware meditation on authorship, success, and the risk of following a disappointing novel with another. Framed as a sequel to The Monastery, it is presented as a deliberate second attempt: Scott trims away supernatural machinery, leans less on unexplained marvels, and argues that fiction can feel truer when it is leaner, more selective, and shaped by public taste. He also defends his choice to center the story on Queen Mary, whose beauty, wit, mi...

"Ivanhoe" is set at the time of the Norman Conquest when Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades to claim his inheritance and the love of Rowena and becomes involved in the struggle between Richard Coeur de Lion and his Norman brother John. The gripping narrative is structured by a series of conflicts: Saxon versus Norman, Christian versus Jew, men versus women, played out against Scott's unflinching moral realism.First published in 1820, "Ivanhoe" is the best-known Walter Scott novel, p...

The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in V...

The first portion of the classic volume written by Scott, Tales of a Grandfather, covering the history of Scotland up to Scott's time.

Walter Scott's "The Complete Novels (Illustrated)" presents a comprehensive collection of his masterful narratives, encapsulating the romantic spirit of the early 19th century. Through vivid characterizations and rich historical detail, Scott effectively marries the genres of romance and historical fiction, offering readers a portal into Scotland's tumultuous past and the vibrant tapestry of its society. His narrative style is marked by an engaging prose that balances lyrical beauty with c...

From fog-shrouded railway carriages to candlelit séance rooms, from haunted manor houses to snow-swept country roads, the gaslight era produced some of the finest ghost stories ever written—and many of the best have been hiding in the yellowed pages of forgotten magazines for over a century.This collection gathers twenty tales of the supernatural from the Victorian and Edwardian periods, drawn from sources as varied as Belgravia, Bentley’s Miscellany, Temple B...

Guy Mannering begins with an astrologer's ominous prophecy at a Galloway country house, where the birth of a long-awaited heir is shadowed by warnings of a crisis at twenty-one. Determined to outwit fate, the boy's father raises him in strict seclusion and religious discipline, only to watch adolescence bring signs of inward distress and spiritual conflict. When the young man finally seeks the old seer's counsel, love and destiny collide in the form of a grave, beautiful maiden, and the no...