In July 1814, no one knew whose words they were reading exactly, but they read “Waverley” in such volume that the initial printing of 1,000 copies sold out in two days. Set during the Jacobite ...

The current silent auction of old and rare books sponsored by the Friends of the A.K. Smiley Public Library offers “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore,” the Waverly Novels by Sir Walter Scott and ...

Caroline McCracken-Flesher, a UW English professor and director of the Center for Global Studies, co-edited a new book, titled “Walter Scott at 250: Looking Forward.” The book considers the ways in ...

THE GOLDEN HAND (501 pp.]—Edith Simon—Putnam ($4). It takes something more than the drugstore magic of the ordinary historical novel to wake the dead. Once in a long while a writer finds the ...

Monday marked 200 years since the publication of Waverley, a novel by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), an event of genuine artistic and intellectual significance. Waverley is widely considered the first ...

‘No,’ said the lady in the bus, — she had to speak rather loud to make herself heard above the din of the traffic, — ‘No, I used to like Scott as a child, but I never read him now.’ ‘I don t suppose ...

Earlier this month the WSWS published an article marking two hundred years since the publication of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley in July 1814, generally considered to be the first historical novel.

IF it is true, as is often affirmed, that Scott no longer has as many readers and admirers as he did, say, fifty years ago, the reason is not hard to find. Our grandfathers, as well as many of ...

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