Waverley

Waverley is a novel written in 1814. Besides being often regarded as the first historical novel it was Scott's first venture into prose fiction. The novel became so popular that his later novels were advertised as having been written "by the author of Waverley".

It is the time of the Jacobite uprising of 1745 which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart, known as "Bonnie Prince Charlie". A young English dreamer and soldier, Edward Waverley, is sent to Scotland that year. He journeys north from his aristocratic family home, Waverley-Honour, in the south of England, first to the Scottish Lowlands and the home of family friend Baron Bradwardine, then into the Highlands and the heart of the rebellion and its aftermath.

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