Life of Sir Walter Scott
Life of Sir Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is one of the best-loved Scottish writers. But it was with the publication of Waverley (1814), the first of a series of sixteen bestselling…
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Life of Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is one of the best-loved Scottish writers. But it was with the publication of Waverley (1814), the first of a series of sixteen bestselling historical novels known collectively as the Waverley novels, that the writer established himself as a literary icon. Beginning with a series of poetry collections and nonfiction works, Scott quickly became known as a rising force in British letters.
Fowler Wright here provides a definitive biography of the writer and the man, showing how his antecedents in Scotland colored all of his later work, and following the rapid rise of his reputation--and the simultaneous onset of the financial troubles that plagued his later years. Such works as Guy Mannering, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, and Kenilworth, among many others, are still widely read today, and have never been out-of-print. S. A masterful portrait of a great (and still vital) poet and novelist.