Old Mortality (Oxford World's Walter Scott, Jane Stevenson, Peter Davidson epub Old Mortality (Oxford World's Walter Scott, Jane Stevenson, Peter Davidson pdf download Old Mortality (Oxford World's Walter Scott, Jane Stevenson, Peter Davidson pdf file Old Mortality (Oxford World's Walter Scott, Jane Stevenson, Peter Davidson audiobook Old Mortality (Oxford World's Walter Scott, Jane Stevenson, Peter Davidson book review Old Mortality (Oxford World's Walter Scott, Jane Stevenson, Peter Davidson summary | #1366093 in Books | Scott Walter Stevenson Jane Davidson Peter | 2009-08-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.00 x1.20 x7.70l,.90 | File type: PDF | 624 pages | Old Mortality||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A Perfect Introduction to the First Historical Novel|By James M. Rawley|I'm reviewing the Oxford World's Classics edition of OLD MORTALITY, edited by Jane Stevenson and Peter Davidson.
This may be the best annotated edition of a classic I've ever seen. And OLD MORTALITY may be Walter Scott's best book.
It's not widely known, but Scott fans in the nineteent|About the Author|Jane Stevenson is Lecturer in Late Antique and Early Medieval History at the University of Sheffield. Peter Davidson is Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick.
Old Mortality (1816), which many consider the finest of Scott's Waverley novels, is a swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland, in the period infamous as the `killing time'. Its central character, Henry Morton, joins the rebels in order to fight Scotland's royalist oppressors, little as he shares the Covenanters' extreme religious beliefs. He is torn be...
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