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Old mortality [1]

Story of the Wars of the Covenanters in the later Stuart times.

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  • "Scott's novels"@en
  • "Legend of Montrose"
  • "Edinburgh Waverley"@en
  • "Old Mortality"
  • "Surgeon's daughter"
  • "Tales of my landlord"@en
  • "Black dwarf"
  • "Old mortality"
  • "Waverley novels"
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  • "Story of old mortality"@en

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  • "Story of the Wars of the Covenanters in the later Stuart times."@en
  • "Published in 1816 and set in seventeenth-century Scotland, this historical novel is part of the series Tales of My Landlord . Henry Morton joins the rebellious Covenanters, fighting for the reestablishment of Presbyterianism in Scotland during the reign of the Stuarts. Morton's loyalties are torn, however, as he is in love with Edith Bellenden, whose family opposes the rebels."@en
  • "Spec. Coll."@en
  • "Set in 1679 during the Scottish populist rebellion we remember as the Covenanter uprising, this historical romantic novel tells the story of Henry Morton, a moderate Covenanter, torn between his love for Edith, the granddaughter of royalist Lady Margaret Bellenden, and loyalty to his countrymen's cause. Henry Morton is a hero for the people, one willing to stand up for what he believes and challenge the authority of King Charles II. His actions change the course of Scottish history."@en
  • "Considered one of Scott's best novels of his career, Old Mortality is part of his first series of Tales of My Landlord. The title is taken from the nickname of Robert Paterson, who became famous traveling Scotland to erect gravestones for the Covenanters, a group that played an integral role in the history of Scotland. The novel begins with an exchange between the fictitious narrator and Paterson and then goes on to tell the story of Henry Morton, a man who is harboring John Balfour, one of the assassins of Archbishop James Sharp. Morton joins Burley in an uprising of Covenanters. This causes internal conflict with Henry, as he is in love with Edith Bellenden, a member of an opposing family. The Covenanters are defeated during the rebellion, and as Henry attempts to flee the scene, he is captured and tried for treason by extremists of the group. He is rescued just before he is executed and forced into exile after testifying in court against the rebels. He returns to Scotland just after the overthrow of James VII and is reunited with Edith. Critics are unsure about the political statements Scott was attempting to weave into the storyline. He treats Robert Paterson, a Covenanter sympathizer, with respect and impartiality at the start of the novel, but clearly wishes the reader to identify with Henry Morton. While certainly a charged subject matter, most critics chalk the realism, interest and conflict of the story up to the genius characteristics of Scott's historical fiction."
  • "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 hislove for a royalist's granddaughter and his loyalty to his downtrodden countrymen. As well as being a tale of divided loyalties, the no."@en

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  • "Powieść angielska"
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  • "Specimens"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Dime novels"@en
  • "Scottish fiction"@en
  • "Powieść historyczna angielska"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Wood engravings"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Yellowbacks"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "War stories"
  • "War stories"@en
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  • "Church history"@en
  • "Pictorial bindings"@en
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  • "Old Mortality, by Sir Walter Scott"
  • "Puritane : roman"
  • "Old mortality [1]"@en
  • "Old mortality : a romance"
  • "Old mortality ; The betrothed ; Castle Dangerous"@en
  • "Old Mortality"@en
  • "Old Mortality"
  • "Waverley novels Vol. 5 Old mortality"
  • "Old Mortality. Edited with an introduction by Angus Calder"@en
  • "Old mortality. Pref. and glossary by W.M. Parker"@en
  • "Old mortality"@en
  • "Old mortality"
  • "Old mortality ; A legend of Montrose and the black dwarf ; The bride of Lammermoor"
  • "Old mortality [and] The Fortunes of Nigel"@en
  • "Old mortality. The black dwarf and a legend of Montrose. By Sir Walter Scott"
  • "Scott's Old Mortality. With introduction, notes, etc"@en
  • "Old mortality / by Sir Walter Scott, Bart"
  • "Old Mortality. In two volumes"@en
  • "Old Mortality : romanzo"
  • "Old mortality [in, The Waverley novels]"
  • "Old mortality [in, The Waverley novels]"@en
  • "Old Mortality. [Abridged.]"@en
  • "Old mortality. With illustrations"@en
  • "Old Mortality, etc"@en
  • "The old mortality"
  • "Old mortality ; The heart of Mid-Lothian"
  • "Puritane"
  • "Old Mortalit"
  • "Old mortality original autograph manuscript collated with first edition"@en
  • "Old Mortality : historischer Roman"
  • "Old mortality : a novel"@en
  • "Old Mortality. Pref. and Glossary by W.M. Parker"@en
  • "Old Mortality ... With sixteen illustrations by Sidney Paget"@en
  • "Old mortality [2]"@en
  • "Old mortality [novel]"
  • "Waverley novels"
  • "Old Mortality : Preface and glossary by W.M. Parker"@en

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