Tales of My Landlord

'Tales of my Landlord' was a series of novels by Sir Walter Scott, which form a subset of the so called Waverley Novels. There were four series:

Of these, "The Heart of Midlothian" and "The Bride of Lammermoor" have been the most successful, and "Old Mortality" is considered by modern critics to be among Scott's best work. The fourth were the least successful.

They were so called, because they were supposed to be tales collected from the (fictional) landlord of the Wallace Inn at Gandercleugh, compiled by a "Peter Pattieson", and edited and sent to the publisher by Jedediah Cleishbotham. This is gone into in great depth in the introduction to "The Black Dwarf".

The first series was planned to comprise four volumes, each containing a separate novel, but Scott by his own admission botched "The Black Dwarf", and "Old Mortality" came to be three volumes in its own right. [http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/works/novels/dwarf.html] . The other three series thus consisted of two volumes each, or just one, in the case of the second.

They were supposed to reflect aspects of Scottish regional life.

ee also

* Waverley Novels