Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish historian, novelist, poet, and playwright. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe (1819), Rob Roy (1817), Waverley (1814), Old Mortality (1816), The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818), and The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), along with the narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810). He had a major impact on European and American literature.

Books by Walter Scott

3 books available

Ivanhoe
Walter Scott
3.8 (87k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction
Amidst the clashing swords of Norman overlords and dispossessed Saxons, the banished knight Ivanhoe returns to a land of jousts and sieges, battling for his forbidden love and the rightful king against the treacherous Prince John.
Rob Roy
Walter Scott
3.7 (10k) average on Goodreads
In the Scottish Highlands, a young Englishman's journey into a world of cattle rustling, clan loyalties, and Jacobite plots forces him to confront his courage and the power of the outlaw, Rob Roy MacGregor.
Waverley
Walter Scott
3.4 (5k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction
A young English idealist finds his loyalties fractured and his destiny forged amidst the wild beauty and brutal realities of the the 1745 Jacobite Rising, caught between the dying embers of feudal Scotland and the dawning age of British unity.