Waverley Novels

Waverley Novels

The Waverley Novels are a long series of books by Sir Walter Scott. For nearly a century they were among the most popular and widely-read novels in all of Europe. Because he did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, they take their name from "Waverley" (1814), which was the first. The later books bore the words "by the author of Waverley" on their title pages.

More loosely, the term is used to refer to "all" of his novels. The "Tales of my Landlord" series was not advertised as "by the author of "Waverley" and thus is not always included in this list.

Chronological order

*1097: "Count Robert of Paris"
*1187-94: "The Betrothed, The Talisman, Ivanhoe"
*1307: "Castle Dangerous"
*1396: "The Fair Maid of Perth"
*1468-77: "Quentin Durward, Anne of Geierstein"
*1547-75: "The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth"
*1616-18: "The Fortunes of Nigel"
*1644-89: "A Legend of Montrose, Woodstock, Peveril of the Peak, The Tale of Old Mortality, The Pirate"
*1700-99: "The Black Dwarf, The Bride of Lammermoor, Rob Roy, Heart of Midlothian, Waverley, Guy Mannering, Redgauntlet, The Antiquary"
*1800s: "St. Ronan's Well"

Editions

The two definitive editions are the 48-volume set published between 1829 and 1833 by Robert Cadell (the "Magnum Opus"), based on previous editions, with new introductions and appendices by Scott, and the 30-volume set, based on manuscripts, published by the Edinburgh University Press and Columbia University Press in the 1990s.

Some of the early editions were lavishly illustrated by George Cattermole.

Placenames

The village of Waverly, Tioga County, New York, takes its name from these novels, as does Waverley Station in Edinburgh.

Other uses of names

Many British railway locomotives were given names from the novels.

Over two thousand streets in Britain have names from titles of individual novels, with 650 from "Waverley" alone. [Streetmap.co.uk [http://www.streetmap.co.uk/] ]

Notes and References

ee also

* "Tales of my Landlord"
* "Tales of the Crusaders"
* "Chronicles of the Canongate"

External links

* A typically enthusiastic [http://www.oldandsold.com/articles28/books-4.shtml essay] on the Waverley Novels, published in 1912


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