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Oxford World's Classics: Old Mortality by Walter Scott; Peter Davidson; Jane Stevenson is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Oxford World's Classics: Old Mortality about?

Old Mortality (1816), which many consider the finest of Scott's Waverley novels, is a swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland, in the period infamous as the 'killing time'. Its central character, Henry Morton, joins the rebels in order to fight Scotland's royalist oppressors, little as he shares the Covenanters' extreme religious beliefs. He is torn between his love for a royalist's granddaught

Author

Walter Scott; Peter Davidson; Jane Stevenson

Publisher

Oxford University Press España, S.A.

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192837639

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24