Waverly (Unabridged)

Historical NovelBy Walter Scott
Listen with Sir Michael Caine™ and 1,000+ voices
Length20h 25m

About this audiobook

Walter Scott's "Waverley" is a seminal work that explores the complexities of Scottish identity during the Jacobite uprising of 1745. Presented through a vibrant narrative style, Scott deftly weaves elements of historical fiction with romanticism, offering readers not only a gripping tale but also a richly textured insight into the socio-political landscape of 18th-century Scotland. The unabridged version ensures that the nuances of characterization and thematic depth are preserved, presenting a comprehensive portrayal of the protagonist, Edward Waverley, whose journey becomes a metaphor for the struggle between tradition and modernity. Walter Scott (1771-1832), heralded as the father of historical novels, was influenced by his profound Scottish heritage and the political turmoil of his time. His experiences as a law clerk navigating the complexities of Scottish culture and his passionate interest in folklore and history provided a fertile ground for the themes explored in "Waverley." Scott's personal connections to the Highland landscape further enrich his depiction of the period, infusing the narrative with authenticity and emotional resonance. "Waverley" is highly recommended for readers interested in historical narratives that delve into national identity and cultural conflict. Its compelling characters and vivid depictions of Scottish life make it not only an enjoyable read but also a significant contribution to the understanding of Scottish literature and history.

Audiobook details

Rating★★★★ 3.7 (9.2K)
Includes Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, Amazon
GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length20 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 30, 2023
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Introduction
2Introduction
3Chapter I. Introductory
4Chapter II. Waverley-Honour — A Retrospect
5Chapter III. Education
Show all chapters
6Chapter IV. Castle-Building
7Chapter V. Choice of a Profession
8Chapter VI. The Adieus of Waverley
9Chapter VII. A Horse-Quarter in Scotland
10Chapter VIII. A Scottish Manor-House Sixty Years Since
11Chapter IX. More of the Manor-House and its Environs
12Chapter X. Rose Bradwardine and Her Father
13Chapter XI. The Banquet
14Chapter XII. Repentance and a Reconciliation
15Chapter XIII. A More Rational Day than the Last
16Chapter XIV. A Discovery — Waverley Becomes Domesticated at Tully-Veolan
17Chapter XV. A Creagh, and its Consequences
18Chapter XVI. An Unexpected Ally Appears
19Chapter XVII. The Hold of a Highland Robber
20Chapter XVIII. Waverley Proceeds on His Journey
21Chapter XIX. The Chief and His Mansion
22Chapter XX. A Highland Feast
23Chapter XXI. The Chieftain’s Sister
24Chapter XXII. Highland Minstrelsy
25Chapter XXIII. Waverley Continues at Glennaquoich
26Chapter XXIV. A Stag-Hunt and its Consequences
27Chapter XXV. News from England
28Chapter XXVI. An Eclaircissement
29Chapter XXVII. Upon the Same Subject
30Chapter XXVIII. A Letter from Tully-Veolan
31Chapter XXIX. Waverley’s Reception in the Lowlands After His Highland Tour
32Chapter I. Shows that the Loss of a Horse’s Shoe May Be a Serious Inconvenience
33Chapter II. An Examination
34Chapter III. A Conference and the Consequence
35Chapter IV. A Confidant
36Chapter V. Things Mend a Little
37Chapter VI. A Volunteer Sixty Years Since
38Chapter VII. An Incident
39Chapter VIII. Waverley is Still in Distress
40Chapter IX. A Nocturnal Adventure
41Chapter X. The Journey is Continued
42Chapter XI. An Old and a New Acquaintance
43Chapter XII. The Mystery Begins to Be Cleared up
44Chapter XIII. A Soldier’s Dinner
45Chapter XIV. The Ball
46Chapter XV. The March
47Chapter XVI. An Incident Gives Rise to Unavailing Reflections
48Chapter XVII. The Eve of Battle
49Chapter XVIII. The Conflict
50Chapter XIX. An Unexpected Embarrassment
Peveril of the Peak (Unabridged)Walter Scott26h 37m3.5 (1.5K)$1.99 · $0.00
Literarische Zeitreise: Die größten Mittelalter-RomaneWalter Scott, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Felix Dahn, August Sperl, Ricarda Huch, Wilhelm Raabe, Levin Schücking, Henry Benrath, Hendrik Conscience, Georg Ebers, Ernst Wichert, Victor Hugo261h 31m$2 · $0.00
Rittersagen: Geschichten aus einem vergangenen ZeitalterWalter Scott, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Felix Dahn, Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra, August Sperl, Christoph von Schmid, Christoph Martin Wieland, Ludovico Ariosto, Ludwig Ganghofer251h 22m$1 · $0.00
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 19m$1.99
50 Medieval Historical NovelsWalter Scott, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Howard Pyle, George Gissing, William Morris, Grace Aguilar, Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, Mary Shelley, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Cao Xueqin, James Hogg, Georg Ebers, Robert Williams Buchanan, Lew Wallace, G. P. R. James, Pearl Poet, C. R. Macauley, Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío, John Fox Jr., G. A. Henty, William John Ferrar, Quatrelles, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Felix Dahn, Arthur W. Marchmont, Robert E. Howard, F. Marion Crawford, Friedrich de La Motte-Fouqué, Sylvanus Cobb, Robert B. Brough, Jean Bernard Lafon, Thomas Malory, Tobias Smollett, Florence L. Barclay, Emma Orczy, Jessie L. Weston, Thomas Love Peacock, John Bunyan, Maurice Hewlett, Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Emily Sarah Holt655h 43m4.3 (12)$1.99
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 Stacpoole569h 42m4.4 (12)$1.99 · $0.00
The Heart of Midlothian (Annotated)Walter Scott26h 50m3.9 (4.5K)$2 · $0.00
A Legend of Montrose (Annotated)Walter Scott10h 50m4.3 (12)$2 · $0.00
The Fair Maid of Perth (Annotated)Walter Scott21h 30m3.9 (632)$2 · $0.00
The Bride of Lammermoor (Annotated)Walter Scott15h 18m3.9 (4.1K)$2 · $0.00
Waverly (Annotated)Walter Scott22h 4m3.6 (9.2K)$2 · $0.00
Le Pirate (Annoté)Walter Scott22h 45m$1.99 · $0.00
Der Abt (Kommentiert)Walter Scott23h 11m$1.50 · $0.00
Ballades et poèmes (Annoté)Walter Scott31h 30m$1.99 · $0.00
The Complete Poetry of Sir Walter Scott (Annotated)Walter Scott53h 13m4.4 (12)$2 · $0.00
Ivanhoe (Annotated)Walter Scott22h 52m4.8 (88)$2 · $0.00
Les contes de mon hôte (Annoté)Walter Scott85h 42m$1.99 · $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 49m4.2 (208)$2 · $0.00
The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5)Jackie French14h 58m4.6 (773)$33 · $0.00
The Labyrinth of the SpiritsCarlos Ruiz Zafon27h 55m4.5 (77.2K)$53 · $0.00
The Things We Cannot SayKelly Rimmer13h 48m4.5 (359.1K)$33 · $0.00
Lieutenant Hornblower (Annotated)C. S. Forester11h 41m4.5 (2.9K)$2 · $0.00
Rilla of InglesideLucy Maud Montgomery11h 44m4.5 (48.2K)$2 · $0.00
The Viennese DressmakerKathryn Gauci11h 46m4.5 (2.1K)$23 · $0.00
The Man in the Brown Suit & They Came to BaghdadAgatha Christie15h 43m4.6 (495)$33 · $0.00
Under the Light of the Italian MoonJennifer Anton12h 28m4.5 (5.3K)$23 · $0.00
Jubilee, 50th Anniversary EditionMargaret Walker15h 43m4.5 (9.5K)$25 · $0.00
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen14h 44m4.4 (4.7M)$2 · $0.00
Flying Colours (Annotated)Cecil Louis Troughton Smith9h 26m4.4 (10.1K)$2 · $0.00
With Love from HarlemReShonda Tate13h 48m4.5 (2K)$6 · $0.00
Sweet Home Highland ChristmasMay McGoldrick, Jan Coffey2h 54m4.5 (1.4K)$7 · $0.00
Rilla of InglesideL. M. Montgomery12h 25m4.4 (67.5K)$2 · $0.00
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Annotated)Willa Cather9h 13m4.4 (4.7K)$2 · $0.00
The Alice NetworkKate Quinn15h 7m4.4 (887.1K)$33 · $0.00
The Goddess of WarsawLisa Barr13h 4m4.4 (36.4K)$33 · $0.00
The Ohio River Trilogy: Betty Zane, The Spirit of the Border & The Last TrailZane Grey29h 8m4.4 (1.8K)$1 · $0.00
The Attic ChildLola Jaye14h 46m4.4 (21K)$33 · $0.00
Martyr of the CatacombsJames De Mille3h 41m4.5 (744)$1 · $0.00
WhistlerAnn Patchett10h 45m4.6 (4.6K)$29 · $0.00
Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver21h 3m4.5 (949.4K)$46 · $0.00
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee12h 18m4.5 (7.4M)$29 · $0.00
Remarkably Bright CreaturesShelby Van Pelt11h 17m4.4 (1.7M)$29 · $0.00
War LordBernard Cornwell13h 21m4.6 (33.1K)$33 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m4.6 (9.3K)$18 · $0.00
Something Like LoveBeverly Jenkins10h 21m4.6 (2.7K)$29 · $0.00
Black History CollectionFrederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois27h 9m4.6 (2.6K)$18 · $0.00
The Old Man and the Sea (Annotated)Ernest Hemingway4h 27m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
White HotIlona Andrews13h 18m4.5 (136.9K)$5 · $0.00
The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5)Jackie French14h 58m4.6 (773)$33 · $0.00
Cast in BloodMichelle Sagara16h 35m4.6 (607)$33 · $0.00
The Captain Blood Trilogy (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini29h 20m4.6 (1K)$3 · $0.00
Ship of the Line (Annotated)Cecil Louis Troughton Smith11h 13m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
The George Orwell CollectionGeorge Orwell24h 46m4.5 (14.4K)$12 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust15h 38m4.5 (9.2K)$2 · $0.00
Driving ForceElle James4h 58m4.6 (407)$20 · $0.00
When God Calls the HeartBrian Bird, Michelle Cox3h 24m4.6 (439)$10 · $0.00
Five Little IndiansMichelle Good10h 34m4.5 (64.5K)$29 · $0.00
Lolth's WarriorR. A. Salvatore13h 20m4.6 (2.4K)$33 · $0.00

You may also like

NAPOLEONAlexandre Dumas7h 42m3.9 (1.4K)$1 · $0.00
Waverly (Annotated)Walter Scott22h 4m3.6 (9.2K)$2 · $0.00
Charlton HestonMarc Eliot19h 34m4.3 (311)$40 · $0.00
Shakespeare's Henriad (Book 1-4)William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt13h 53m4.2 (253)$1.99 · $0.00
In the Reign of TerrorG. A. Henty9h 36m4.0 (3.5K)$2.30
Wee Willie Winkie, and Other Stories Volume 2Rudyard Kipling4h 49m3.8 (1.3K)$2.30
Kishore KumarParthiv Dhar, Anirudha Bhattacharjee14h 3m4.2 (467)$18 · $0.00
King Henry IVWilliam Shakespeare, William Hazlitt7h 10m3.8 (33.8K)$2 · $0.00
The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin7h 4m4.0 (111.9K)$2.30
Historic Boys: Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their TimesElbridge S. Brooks8h 49m4.0 (26)$2 · $0.00
The Amazing History of England - Children's Book with Original Illustrations (Annotated)Charles Dickens33h 48m$2 · $0.00
Heroes of 1776Neil Gorsuch, Janie Nitze47m4.7 (83)$3 · $0.00
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte (Vol. 1-4)William Milligan Sloane58h 22m$1 · $0.00
Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773-1774Philip Vickers Fithian12h 3m4.1 (165)$2 · $0.00
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina, in the state of PiacenzaRafael Sabatini12h 55m3.9 (105)$2 · $0.00
The Story of NapoleonHarold Wheeler9h 16m$2 · $0.00
GROWING UP REPUBLICANPatricia Beard3h$18 · $0.00
Historic BoyhoodsRupert Sargent Holland5h 59m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Novels of Walter Scott (Illustrated)Walter Scott524h 40m$2 · $0.00
Pine to Potomac: Life of James G. BlaineE. K. Cressey9h 47m$2 · $0.00