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Old Mortality is one of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott. Set in south west Scotland, it forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the 1st series of his Tales of My Landlord (1816).
- Scott, Walter, Sir, Douglas S. Mack
- 353 (Edinburgh Edition, 1993)
- 1816
- 2 December 1816
Old Mortality, novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1816 and a masterpiece in the genre of historical romance. The story takes place in Scotland in 1679 during a time of political turmoil, when the dissenting Covenanters were up in arms against the English King Charles II.
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Mortalidad antigua. Compartir Imprimir Citar. Mortalidad antigua en el Monumento Scott, Edimburgo, esculpido por Andrew Currie. Old Mortality es una de las novelas de Waverley de Walter Scott. Ambientada en el suroeste de Escocia, forma, junto con The Black Dwarf, la primera serie de sus Tales of My Landlord (1816).
Perhaps the finest and certainly the most readable of Scott's Waverley novels, Old Mortality is a swift-moving historical romance that pits an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland - the period notorious as "the killing time."
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23 de oct. de 2008 · Old Mortality : Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Scott, Walter, 1771-1832. Publication date. 1906. Topics. Covenanters -- Fiction, Bothwell Bridge, Battle of, Scotland, 1679 -- Fiction, Covenanters, Scotland. Publisher. London, New York Thomas Nelson and Sons. Collection. americana.
Overview. Old Mortality. Quick Reference. A novel by Sir W. Scott, published in 1816 in Tales of my Landlord, 1st series. ‘Old Mortality’ is the nickname of a certain Robert Paterson, who towards the end of the 18th cent. wandered about Scotland cleaning and repairing the tombs of the Cameronians.
16 de feb. de 2003 · “Old Mortality” is the first of Scott’s works in which he invades history beyond the range of what may be called living oral tradition. In “Waverley,” and even in “Rob Roy,” he had the memories of Invernahyle, of Miss Nairne, of many persons of the last generation for his guides.
