Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott is a biography of the famous Scottish author, poet, and historian, written by the renowned Scottish writer and critic, Andrew Lang. The book provides a detailed account of Scott’s life, from his childhood in Edinburgh to his rise to fame as a writer and his eventual decline. Lang explores Scott’s literary achievements, including his most famous works such as Waverley, Ivanhoe, and Rob Roy, and his contributions to Scottish culture and history. The book also delves into Scott’s personal life, including his marriage, his financial troubles, and his health issues. Lang provides a nuanced and insightful portrayal of Scott, highlighting both his strengths and weaknesses. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in Scottish literature, history, and culture, or for fans of Sir Walter Scott’s work.1906. While best known for his translations of classical literature and as a collector of folk and fairy tales, Lang also wrote poetry, biographies, histories, novels, literary criticisms and even children’s books. This is his biography on Sir Walter Scott, who created and popularized historical novels in a series called the Waverley Novels. In his novels Scott arranged the plots and characters so the reader enters into the lives of both great and ordinary people caught up in violent, dramatic changes in history. All of his novels were published anonymously until after the financial crash of 1825-26 when the author’s anonymity was destroyed. Though the novels were all published without his name they were grouped into various series including By The Author of Waverley; two appeared under the title Tales From Benedictine Sources, another two as Tales of the Crusaders, and four as Chronicles of the Canongate. The remainder of Scott’s novels were published under the heading Tales of my Landlord. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.