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Sir Walter SCOTT (1771-1832), son of Walter Scott, a Writer to the Signet, was born in College Wynd, Edinburgh, educated at Edinburg High School and University, and apprenticed to his father. He spends part of his childhood in the rural Scottish Borders at his paternal grandparents' farm at Sandyknowe. Here he was taught to read by his aunt Jenny, and learned from her the speech patterns and many of the tales and legends that characterised much of his work. He was called to the bar in 1792. At the age of 25 he began to write professionally, translating works from German. His first publication being rhymed versions of ballads by Gottfried August Bürger in 1796. He then published a three-volume set of collected ballads of his adopted home region, The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. In 1820, Scott was created baronet. Scott´s influence as a novelist was incalculable: he established the form of the “Historical Novel”, and the form of the short story with “The Two Drovers” and “The Highland Widow”. He was avidly read and imitated throughout the 19th cent, and there was a revival of interest from European Marxist critics in the 1930´s, who interpreted his works in terms of historicism. Postmodern tastes favoured discontinuous narratives and the introduction of the "first person", yet they were more favourable to his work than Modernist tastes. Scott is now seen as an important innovator and a key figure in the development of Scottish and world literature. “Waverley » (1814). First novel of Sir Walter Scott. Edward Waverley, a young English dreamer and soldier, is sent to Scotland, where he is attracted to the Jacobite cause and takes part in the Battle of Prestonpans (September 1745). The Waverley Novels express the belief in the need for social progress that does not reject the traditions of the past, and shows the influence of the 18th-century Enlightenment.
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Waverley (Illustrated), by Sir Walter Scott Review "Waverley is the first great historical novel and should be ranked alongside Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma or Tolstoy's War and Peace, both of which are bathed in the blaze of Scott's molten genius." —Independent"Scott was one of the most influential of all writers with a profound effect on all the literatures of Europe and North America. He invented the historical novel and greatly enlarged the scope of the novel as a literary form. Only Shakespeare can equal him as a creator of characters." —Daily Mail
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Sir Walter Scott’s first novel, Waverley enjoyed tremendous popularity upon its first publication. The novel is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore Charles Edward Stuart to the British throne. It portrays the doomed rising from the perspective of the hero, Edward Waverley, who travels to Scotland and is drawn to the Jacobite cause by a clan chieftain, his beautiful sister, and Charles Edward Stuart himself.
Appendices to this edition include material on the Jacobite Rebellion and related conflicts, Scottish folklore, and a broad selection of contemporary reviews of Waverley.
About the Author Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet whose major works include The Heart of Midlothian, Ivanhoe, The Lady of the Lake, Rob Roy, and Waverly.
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85 of 88 people found the following review helpful. In this time, a curiousity. By Angry Mofo Just about every work of historical fiction ever written owes its existence to Walter Scott and to Waverley, his first novel. At the time, it was a new way to write novels - indeed, combining historical fact with entertainment was a brilliant idea. By creating a fictional character and inserting him into the middle of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, Walter Scott was able to bring the culture and traditions of Scotland to life in the most staid bourgeois imagination. As a result, he achieved unprecedented popularity for his time, singlehandedly started a tourist industry in Scotland, and kicked off a new genre of fiction, which was then studiously adopted by countless authors, of whom Dumas and Fenimore Cooper are canonical examples.Sometime in the middle of the nineteenth century, however, Scott's popularity took a nosedive, and has never recovered since. Unfortunately, after all the years and all the imitators, and after this kind of novel turned into an established genre, much of Waverley's charm has been lost, and the book no longer seems particularly impressive. Its length is sure to turn off many, especially given that for all the historical romance, there's relatively little action here. However, what still makes it worth your time is Scott's delightful and quintessentially British humour, which he applies through odd digressions and liberal use of comic anticlimax to alleviate tension. One also can't help but be impressed by his vocabulary; there are many passages in Waverley that are more or less devoid of content, but which are so elaborately constructed as to be a pleasure to read.The story itself is no less worth one's attention than before, as far as its "educational value" goes, but the modern reader will not enjoy wading through the obfuscatory prose. I confess that I had a hard time getting through the first few chapters; after that, though, I got used to it and actually enjoyed the rest of the book. I can't however, claim that it was a particularly mindblowing read. I'm not alone; Scott has often been criticized for being a daft romantic entertainer and not a serious artist. This isn't quite true since he was rather conservative (not romantic); he writes about romantic things, but with a rather tongue-in-cheek approach that isn't visible in the works of, say, Dumas. What is true, however, is that this is primarily a tale of manners, and thus by necessity somewhat stuck in its time. Dumas's colourful, loyal, wine-loving Musketeers can thrill the mind even to this day; Scott's characters seem rather bland in comparison, and it looks like he is doomed to fall even further into disfavour as time passes and readers' frames of reference change even further.I do recommend Waverley, but more for the author than the book - unable to extract any great effect from the latter, I found myself more and more captivated by the former, who lets the reader in on his jokes and invites him to regard the events of the book with the same attitude of respect and fascination lightened by bemused wit. That doesn't make for any life-altering enlightenment, but it is enjoyable.
58 of 60 people found the following review helpful. Sir Walter Scott's redemption--if he needed one. By Michel Aaij Sir Walter Scott, I think, needs to be redeemed only in the eyes of people who don't know him. He has a bad rep in most English Departments--because most people (including English professors) haven't read him. Typically, the process goes like this: a professor will tell you that Cooper got the "historical novel format" from Scott, and then you read "The Last of the Mohicans," and you're cured forever. But really, Scott himself is the antidote to this hasty conclusion."Waverley" is a great novel. It takes some work though: you'll have to get over the sometimes convoluted language, the artificial dialogue, the idealized descriptions of character and setting. But once you do that, this novel is a blast. The hero may look like a sissy for most of the book, but after the Jacobites' retreat back to Scotland, Scott will show you that Waverley is a "real" character after all. The happy ending, after adventuring incognito through England back to London, may seem too romantic for a student in an English Department, but Scott never loses sight of the pain and bloodshed that are the inevitable result of civil war.Romantically speaking, it's up to you. Rose or Flora? I always think it's sad that Scott has Waverley marry Rose instead of providing us with a super-happy ending, but perhaps this goes to show you--Scott is not that romantic after all. Romantically speaking, you got to love the couleur locale of the Highlands, the dirks and claymores, the unwavering loyalty of Evan Dhu, Flora's waterfall... Don't forget, all you professors and Ph.D.'s and M.A.'s, we also read to enjoy, and I enjoy the heck out of this novel!This particular edition, like all the others by OUP, is very competent. The introduction by Clare Lemont could have done with a healthy dose of Marxist criticism (see the OUP edition of "Rob Roy"--in my opinion, by the way, a much less exciting novel), but the apparatus, which includes extensive notes by the editor and Scott's introductions and notes to the Magnum Opus-edition, is great.So there you have it: this is a very good edition of a wonderful novel by a wonderful storyteller. Go get you a copy and read it with glasses colored by whatever critical theory you subscribe to--but read it first, and read it for enjoyment also.
33 of 34 people found the following review helpful. Stick With It.... By Jonathan B. Sims Oh, is this a difficult read!If you're fluent in Old Scotts, French and Latin, and familiar with hundreds of historical/literary allusions (some of which Scott purposefully distorts in the mouths of his characters), then you should be OK. Otherwise, I see only two ways for the reader to make it through "Waverly" -- Sir Walter Scott's first historical novel and progenitor of an entire literary genre. Either keep a thumb on the page you're reading and leave the other digits free to mark the glossary, appendices and notes. Or, may I suggest you plow through the text fortified with your favorite beverage and merely pretend to understand what is being said?Here's an example from the pedantic and quarrelsome, Baron Bradwardine, who has just dismounted his war-horse:"I seldom ban, sir, but if you play any of your hound's-foot tricks, and leave puir Berwick before he's sorted, to rin after spuilzie, deil be wi' me if I do not give your craig a thraw."You'll forgive my very loose, vulgar translation, but here goes:"I seldom swear, sir, but if I catch you running around, leaving my poor horse, Berwick, unattended (all hot and lathered) so you can whore after the spoils of war, it will be the devil with me if I don't wring your bloody neck with my own hands."Mercifully, the narration is written in modern English. The trick is to get through the first 125 pages, which is all narrative, no dialogue, and not a modicum of action. Something is not quite right here. Either Scott's erudition is too much for a Post- World War II baby boomer weaned on television; or, he was still cutting his literary teeth on "Waverly" and had not yet mastered a narrative technique that served him so well later on. My problem is I'm not quite sure which it is?Ultimately, the text and narration may be easier to deal with than the young hero protagonist, Edward Waverly -- the last remaining branch of a venerable, ancient English family, whose only familial blemish is empathy for Scottish independence. By no means is Edward Waverly a bad fellow -- I don't think he has a mean bone in his body. He is, indeed, a gentleman at a time when that term actually stood for something. He also possesses a certain adventuresome spirit, and to use a modern day expression he has wonderful survival skills.The problem with Edward Waverly is that Scott has rendered a central character that inspires something like indifference in the reader, and at the risk of sounding too harsh I'm not sure I really care what happens to him. It's hard to. This is how he describes himself: "I am the very child of caprice." And here is the brave, ambitious Highland Chieftain, Fergus Mac-Ivor, telling Edward, "...you are not celebrated for knowing your own mind very pointedly." That's putting it mildly! At times his behavior is overly mannered, wooden and seemingly imbecilic. At other times, he appears to aimlessly drift from one allegiance to another.Perhaps this is the way Scott wanted to portray an overly romantic young man, struggling to find his place in the world and trying rather desperately to answer the age-old question: "Who am I?" Or, maybe, it was Sir Walter Scott struggling with himself? After all, he was blazing a new literary genre with "Waverly," and his primary goal was to recapture a bygone era (which he does so magnificently.) My sense is Scott created Edward Waverly to transport his reader back in time, and along the way Scott may have lost touch with his own young protagonist.Half a century later, Robert Louis Stevenson recreated Edward Waverly as David Balfour in "Kidnapped", who is also a young man coming of age in war-torn Scotland. The difference is that David Balfour does not have the advantages of wealth and education, nor is he overly romantic and foolish enough -- as is Edward Waverly -- to willingly stick his head into the jaws of a real historic event, the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion. Perhaps the best that can be said for Edward Waverly is that many of the novel's heroic figures love him and want to protect him....mostly from himself. And to his credit, by the end of this long tale, Edward Waverly manfully handles the loss of so many dear friends.So, why have I given "Waverly" four stars? Well, on the authority of others, it did create an entirely new literary genre -- the historical novel. But I loved this book because Sir Walter Scott created a precious time-bank of 18th Century Scottish culture. This is a treasure trove of language and customs, and the reader is treated to a national ethos of Scotland, including marshal ardor, hospitality, thrift and a certain fondness for overly intricate legal matters. And, if you can make it through, say, four-fifths of the book, Scott delivers a heartfelt, masterful ending that blends pathos with celebration and renewal.
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