Classics

'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...

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...

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