Walter Scott: 696 books

Jeanie Deans, a young woman from a family of highly devout Presbyterians, goes to London, partly by foot, hoping to achieve an audience with the Queen through the influence of the Duke of Argyll. She is determined to receive a royal pardon for her sister, who was unjustly imprisoned at the Old Tolbooth...

This eBook edition of "A Legend of Montrose" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. A Legend of Montrose takes place during the Earl of Montrose's Highland campaign on behalf of King Charles I. The story deals with a love triangle...

Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, is out of favour with his father for his allegiance to the Norman king Richard the Lionheart. The story is set in 12th century England, after the failure of the Third Crusade, with colorful descriptions of knight tournaments, witch trials and outlaws. This story is follows...

This eBook edition of "The Fortunes of Nigel" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. A young Scottish nobleman, Nigel Olifaunt, Lord Glenvarloch, travels to London in order to ask the King to repay his father's loan. Nigel wishes...

This eBook edition of "The Bride of Lammermoor" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Bride of Lammermoor is set in the Lammermuir Hills of south-east Scotland, and tells of a tragic love affair between young Lucy Ashton and...

This eBook edition of "Guy Mannering" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Guy Mannering is set in the Galloway area of southwest Scotland. It tells the story of Henry "Harry" Bertram, the son of the Laird of Ellangowan,...

This eBook edition of "The Antiquary" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Jonathan Oldbuck is an amateur historian, archaeologist and collector of items of dubious antiquity. While taking a coach from Edinburgh, he meets young...

Tras combatir en las cruzadas al lado del rey Ricardo “Corazón de león”, el noble Robin de Loxsley regresa sus tierras inglesas. Pero muchas cosas han cambiado en su ausencia: el trono inglés ha sido usurpado por Juan “sin tierra”, que permite a la oligarquía normanda toda clase de tropelías...

Fair Catharine Glover, daughter of a glovemaker in Perth, kisses Henry, the armourer, while he is sleeping, on Valentine's Day. Catharine has also caught the eye of the Duke of Rothesay, and on St Valentine's morning Henry encountered a party of his courtiers in the act of placing a ladder against...

Old Mortality was a Scottish stonemason of the 18th century, who late in life decided to travel around Scotland re-engraving the tombs of 17th century Covenanter martyrs. The narrator describes meeting Old Mortality, hearing his anecdotes, and finding out other stories of the events to present an...

Darsie Latimer is a young man who gets kidnapped by Hugh Redgauntlet, and taken to a village in Dumfries. After much intrigue Darsie discovers that Redgauntlet is his uncle. He also discovers that a number of prominent Jacobites, and Bonnie Prince Charlie himself are staying in the village. Redgauntlet...

Sir Geoffrey Peveril and Major Bridgenorth had been boys together, and although they adopted different views in religion and politics, the Roundhead major had saved the Royalist's life after the battle of Bolton-le-Moors, and Lady Peveril had brought up major's girl, Alice, with her own son. Kids...

La sposa di Lammermoor racconta del tragico amore tra Edgar, padrone di Ravenswood, e Lucy Ashton, figlia di Sir William Ashton, nemico di Ravenswood. La moglie di Sir William è la malvagia della storia, che ordisce l'intero intrigo. Lady Ashton è altera e manipolatrice nel suo scopo di annullare...

This eBook edition of "The Black Dwarf" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. As Hobbie Elliot and Patrick Earnscliff went across the Liddesdale hills of the Scottish Borders, going to Hobbies home, the moon suddenly revealed the...