Classics

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...

Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and...

From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of...

1745. The year of the final Jacobite uprising. Edward Waverley, a naive, aristocratic...

King George is on the throne, but there are those in Scotland who swear loyalty to the...

In the court of Elizabeth I, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, is favoured above all...

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

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