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Fiction · 1814

Waverley

Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since

Walter Scott

Reading time
about 13.5 h
Length
183,268 words · 657 pages
Structure
72 chapters · 2 front-matter sections
Language
English
Era
Romantic

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Contents

  1. Introduction—(1829)
  2. Chapter I — Introductory
  3. Chapter II — Waverley-Honour—A Retrospect
  4. Chapter III — Education
  5. Chapter IV — Castle-Building
  6. Chapter V — Choice of a Profession
  7. Chapter VI — The Adieus of Waverley
  8. Chapter VII — A Horse-Quarter in Scotland
  9. Chapter VIII — A Scottish Manor-House Sixty Years Since
  10. Chapter IX — More of the Manor-House and Its Environs
  11. Chapter X — Rose Bradwardine and Her Father
  12. Chapter XI — The Banquet
  13. Chapter XII — Repentance and a Reconciliation
  14. Chapter XIII — A More Rational Day Than the Last
  15. Chapter XIV — A Discovery—Waverley Becomes Domesticated at Tully-Veolan
  16. Chapter XV — A CREAGH, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES (A CREAGH was an incursion for plunder, termed on the Borders a raid.)
  17. Chapter XVI — An Unexpected Ally Appears
  18. Chapter XVII — The Hold of a Highland Robber
  19. Chapter XVIII — Waverley Proceeds on His Journey
  20. Chapter XIX — The Chief and His Mansion
  21. Chapter XX — A Highland Feast
  22. Chapter XXI — The Chieftain’s Sister
  23. Chapter XXII — Highland Minstrelsy
  24. Chapter XXIII — Waverley Continues at Glennaquoich
  25. Chapter XXIV — A Stag-Hunt, and Its Consequences
  26. Chapter XXV — News from England
  27. Chapter XXVI — An Eclaircissement
  28. Chapter XXVII — Upon the Same Subject
  29. Chapter XXVIII — A Letter from Tully-Veolan
  30. Chapter XXIX — Waverley’s Reception in the Lowlands After His Highland Tour
  31. Chapter XXX — Shows That the Loss of a Horse’s Shoe May Be a Serious Inconvenience
  32. Chapter XXXI — An Examination
  33. Chapter XXXII — A Conference, and the Consequence
  34. Chapter XXXIII — A Confidant
  35. Chapter XXXIV — Things Mend a Little
  36. Chapter XXXV — A Volunteer Sixty Years Since
  37. Chapter XXXVI — An Incident
  38. Chapter XXXVII — Waverley Is Still in Distress
  39. Chapter XXXVIII — A Nocturnal Adventure
  40. Chapter XXXIX — The Journey Is Continued
  41. Chapter XL — An Old and a New Acquaintance
  42. Chapter XLI — The Mystery Begins to Be Cleared Up
  43. Chapter XLII — A Soldier’s Dinner
  44. Chapter XLIII — The Ball
  45. Chapter XLIV — The March
  46. Chapter XLV — An Incident Gives Rise to Unavailing Reflections
  47. Chapter XLVI — The Eve of Battle
  48. Chapter XLVII — The Conflict
  49. Chapter XLVIII — An Unexpected Embarrassment
  50. Chapter XLIX — The English Prisoner
  51. Chapter L — Rather Unimportant
  52. Chapter LI — Intrigues of Love and Politics
  53. Chapter LII — Intrigues of Society and Love
  54. Chapter LIII — Fergus a Suitor
  55. Chapter LIV — ‘To One Thing Constant Never’
  56. Chapter LV — A Brave Man in Sorrow
  57. Chapter LVI — Exertion
  58. Chapter LVII — The March
  59. Chapter LVIII — The Confusion of King Agramant’s Camp
  60. Chapter LIX — A Skirmish
  61. Chapter LX — Chapter of Accidents
  62. Chapter LXI — A Journey to London
  63. Chapter LXII — What’s to Be Done Next?
  64. Chapter LXIII — Desolation
  65. Chapter LXIV — Comparing of Notes
  66. Chapter LXV — More Explanation
  67. Chapter LXVI
  68. Chapter LXVII
  69. Chapter LXVIII
  70. Chapter LXIX
  71. Chapter LXX — Dolce Domum
  72. Chapter LXXI
  73. Chapter LXXII — A Postscript, Which Should Have Been a Preface
  74. Notes
  75. Glossary

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Walter Scott

1771–1832 · Romantic

Walter Scott (1771–1832) was born in Edinburgh, practised as an advocate, and held the offices of Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire and Clerk of Session for most of his life. He was the most popular poet in Britain — The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Marmion, The Lady of the Lake — before turning, anonymously, to the Waverley novels in 1814. Ivanhoe (1819) was the first he set outside Scotland. Made a baronet in 1820, he was ruined by his publishers’ failure in 1826 and wrote on to pay the debts.

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