Sir Walter Scott

A major historical biography: the dramatic, harrowing and contested story of Sir Walter Ralegh

This text charts Sir Walter Scott's development as a poet and novelist.

A bestselling author in his own time and long after, Sir Walter Scott was not only a writer of thrilling tales of romance and adventure but also an insightful historical thinker and literary craftsman. Over the last two decades, scholars have come to see him as an important figure in Romantic-period ...