Waverley

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Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since is a historical novel by Walter Scott (1771–1832). Scott was already famous as a poet, and chose to publish Waverley anonymously in 1814 as his first venture into prose fiction. It is often regarded as one of the first historical novels in the Western tradition.

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Image: John Pettie (painter, 1839-1893); F. Huth (engraver), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.