Classics

In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Henry Jekyll discovers a...

Richard Hannay finds a corpse in his flat, and becomes involved in a plot by spies to...

Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable...

Guy Mannering is an astrologer who only half-believes in his art. Instead he places his...

Set against the backdrop of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Waverley depicts the story...

This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the...

The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the...

'It was early in a fine summer's day, near the end of the eighteenth century, when a...

For the most popular of his Scottish romances, published at the end of 1817, Scott drew...

Far and wide was 'Redgauntlet' hated and feared. Men thought he had a direct compact...

Old Mortality (1816), which many consider the finest of Scott's Waverley novels, is a...

More than a century after the Norman Conquest, England remains a colony of foreign...