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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'... Read Full Overview

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The Tale of Old Mortality describes the lives - and often violent deaths - the hopes, and the struggles, of the Covenanters in late seventeenth-century Scotland. A tale of extremism, bigotry and cruelty, it is redeemed by its characters' courage and loyalty, and their... Read Full Overview

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Perhaps the finest and certainly the most readable of Scott's Waverley novels, Old Mortality is a swift-moving historical romance that pits an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland--the period notorious as "the killing... Read Full Overview

Set in Southern Scotland among a time of religious turmoil in the 17th century, Old Morality depicts a young soldier, Henry Morton, as he becomes involved with the armed struggle between two religious groups-the Covenanters and the Cavaliers. While the Cavaliers supported... Read Full Overview

Set in Southern Scotland among a time of religious turmoil in the 17th century, Old Morality depicts a young soldier, Henry Morton, as he becomes involved with the armed struggle between two religious groups-the Covenanters and the Cavaliers. While the Cavaliers supported... Read Full Overview

A swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in 17th-century Scotland in the period infamous as the killing time. Henry Morton is torn between his love for a royalist's granddaughter and his loyalty to his downtrodden... Read Full Overview

Ces malheureux furent enfin entass s dans un cachot souterrain du ch teau de Dunnotar, qui n'avait d'autre fen tre que celle qui donnait sur un pr cipice au-dessus de l'oc an Germanique. Ces captifs, apr s avoir beaucoup souffert dans leur marche, souffrirent plus encore, en... Read Full Overview

Set in 1679 during the Scottish populist rebellion known as the Covenanter uprising, The Tale of Old Mortality is one of the outstanding historical fictions of the nineteenth century. Henry Morton of Milnewood is compelled to take up arms against the royalists, who are led by... Read Full Overview