The Tale of Old Mortality describes the lives - and often violent deaths - the hopes, and the struggles, of the Covenanters in late seventeenth-century Scotland. A tale of extremism, bigotry and cruelty, it is redeemed by its characters' courage and loyalty, and their passionate belief in religious and civil liberty. Considered to be one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century, its influence pervades European writing from Stendhal to Tolstoy.
| ISBN: | 9780748604432 |
| Publication date: | 6th August 1993 |
| Author: | Walter Scott, Douglas S Mack |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 522 pages |
| Series: | Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Classic fiction: general and literary |