The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Memoirs & Letters
Historical Novels, Border Ballads, Memoirs, and LettersBy Walter Scott
Length842h
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The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott gathers the major achievements of a writer who effectively established the historical novel in English, alongside short fiction, poetry, memoirs, and correspondence that illuminate his literary career. From the medieval borderlands of Waverley and Ivanhoe to the political and social tensions of The Heart of Mid-Lothian and Old Mortality, Scott transforms archival history into vivid narrative, combining panoramic description, regional speech, adventure, romance, and a penetrating sense of cultural change. His verse romances, notably The Lay of the Last Minstrel and Marmion, reveal the same fascination with legend, national memory, and contested identity, while the supplementary writings offer valuable biographical and critical context. Together, these texts exemplify Romantic historicism: an imaginative reconstruction of the past that also reflects anxieties about modernity, class, nationhood, and tradition. Scott (1771–1832), a Scottish novelist, poet, antiquarian, and advocate, drew deeply upon Border ballads, Scottish folklore, legal history, and the political struggles that shaped Britain. His professional training as an advocate and his extensive collecting and editing of traditional materials furnished the documentary knowledge behind his fiction. Writing during the Romantic period, he united Enlightenment historical inquiry with Romantic interest in emotion, landscape, and popular culture, profoundly influencing European literature. This volume is recommended to readers seeking both the pleasures of expansive storytelling and an understanding of how modern historical fiction developed. It suits students of Romanticism, Scottish studies, literary history, and cultural memory, while offering general readers an exceptionally rich introduction to Scott's imaginative range and enduring influence.
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length842 hrs
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Publish dateJun 15, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Basset-Table (Annotated)
26Chapter XV
2The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Memoirs & Letters (Illustrated)
27Chapter XVI
3INTRODUCTION:
28Chapter XVII
4Famous Authors on Scott
29Chapter XVIII
5SIR WALTER SCOTT AND LADY MORGAN by Victor Hugo
30Chapter XIX
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6MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS by Robert Louis Stevenson
31Chapter XX
7SCOTT AND HIS PUBLISHERS by Charles Dickens
32Chapter XXI
8WAVERLY NOVELS:
33Chapter XXII
9WAVERLEY
34Chapter XXIII
10Introduction
35Chapter XXIV
11Volume I
36Chapter XXV
12Chapter I
37Chapter XXVI
13Chapter II
38Chapter XXVII
14Chapter III
39Chapter XXVIII
15Chapter IV
40Chapter XXIX
16Chapter V
41Volume II
17Chapter VI
42Chapter I
18Chapter VII
43Chapter II
19Chapter VIII
44Chapter III
20Chapter IX
45Chapter IV
21Chapter X
46Chapter V
22Chapter XI
47Chapter VI
23Chapter XII
48Chapter VII
24Chapter XIII
49Chapter VIII
25Chapter XIV
50Chapter IX
The Greatest Medieval Romance Novels of All TimeWalter Scott, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Maurice Hewlett, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Robert Williams Buchanan, Sir Thomas Malory, Emily Sarah Holt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull, Stanley John Weyman, Thomas Love Peacock, Grace Aguilar, Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, Florence L. Barclay, Emma Orczy, Georg Ebers, Jessie L. Weston, Friedrich de La Motte-Fouqué285h 48m$0.99
Die größten Liebesgeschichten des MittelaltersWalter Scott, Victor Hugo, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Alexandre Dumas, Gottfried von Straßburg, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Georg Ebers, Levin Schücking, Karl Bröger, Heinrich von Kleist, Wilhelm Raabe, Christoph Martin Wieland, Julius Wolff, Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette, Ludwig Ganghofer, August Sperl, Louise Otto, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué397h 22m$1 · $0.00
THE DEEP BLUE ABYSS Boxed SetWalter Scott, Frederick Marryat, Herman Melville, R. L. Stevenson, Daniel Defoe, Tobias Smollett, Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Mayne Reid, Victor Hugo, R. M. Ballantyne, Jules Verne, Jack London, L. Frank Baum, Randall Parrish, Charles Boardman Hawes, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Ralph Henry Barbour, Rafael Sabatini, Jeffery Farnol, Henry De Vere Stacpoole571h 3m$0.99 · $0.00
The Heart of Midlothian (Annotated)Walter Scott26h 50m$2 · $0.00
A Legend of Montrose (Annotated)Walter Scott10h 50m$2 · $0.00
The Fair Maid of Perth (Annotated)Walter Scott21h 30m$2 · $0.00
The Bride of Lammermoor (Annotated)Walter Scott15h 18m$2 · $0.00
Waverly (Annotated)Walter Scott22h 4m$2 · $0.00
Le Pirate (Annoté)Walter Scott22h 45m$2 · $0.00
Der Abt (Kommentiert)Walter Scott23h 11m$1.50 · $0.00
Ballades et poèmes (Annoté)Walter Scott31h 30m$0.99 · $0.00
The Complete Poetry of Sir Walter Scott (Annotated)Walter Scott53h 13m$2 · $0.00
Ivanhoe (Annotated)Walter Scott22h 52m$2 · $0.00
Les contes de mon hôte (Annoté)Walter Scott85h 53m$0.99 · $0.00
Tales of Scottish Highlands & Moors – 70+ Historical Novels, Adventure Classics & Victorian Romances (Annotated)Walter Scott, John Buchan, Robert Louis Stevenson, George MacDonald, J. M. Barrie976h 49m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Novels of Walter Scott (Illustrated) (Annotated)Walter Scott525h 49m$2 · $0.00
Gesammelte Werke (Kommentiert)Walter Scott502h 54m$3.50 · $0.00
The Pirate (Annotated)Walter Scott23h 14m$2 · $0.00
The Pirate: Adventure Novel Based on the Life of Notorious Pirate John Gow (Annotated)Walter Scott23h 10m$2 · $0.00
Old Mortality (Annotated)Walter Scott20h 59m$2 · $0.00
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn21h 56m$46 · $0.00
Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate CollectionArthur Conan Doyle59h 49m$5 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Novels, Short Stories and Autobiographical WritingsFyodor Dostoyevsky270h 59m$2 · $0.00
The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America (Annotated)Howard Irving Chapelle, Tappan Adney13h 9m$0.99 · $0.00
Charles Dickens: Complete Works (Annotated)Charles Dickens818h 55m$0.99 · $0.00
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen & Brontë Sisters (Annotated)Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë204h 15m$0.99 · $0.00
The Complete Works: Charlotte, Emily, Anne, Patrick & Branwell BrontëCharlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë138h 12m$1 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Annotated)Oscar Wilde126h 19m$2 · $0.00
L. M. Montgomery – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & MemoirsLucy Maud Montgomery155h 1m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works of the Brontë Family Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë140h 13m$2 · $0.00
MARK TWAIN: 12 Novels, 195 Short Stories, Autobiography, 10 Travel Books, 160+ Essays & Speeches (Illustrated)Mark Twain415h 9m5.0 (2)$2 · $0.00
This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald11h 30m$2 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m$18 · $0.00
The Complete Works: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Articles, Essays, Travel Sketches and Memoirs (Annotated)Anthony Trollope1096h 4m$0.99 · $0.00
Ivanhoe (Annotated)Walter Scott22h 52m$2 · $0.00
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All NovelsGeorge Orwell53h 48m$10 · $0.00
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The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Annotated)Louisa May Alcott226h 24m$0.99 · $0.00
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