• Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since /ˈweɪvərli/ is a historical novel by Walter Scott (1771–1832). Scott was already famous as a poet, and chose to publish...
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    The Waverley Novels are a long series of novels by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). For nearly a century, they were among the most popular and widely read...
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  • Look up Waverley in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Waverley may refer to: Waverley (novel), by Sir Walter Scott Waverley Overture, a work by Hector Berlioz...
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    classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe (1819), Rob Roy (1817), Waverley (1814), Old Mortality (1816), The Heart of Mid-Lothian...
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    Ivanhoe (redirect from Ivanhoe (novel))
    (/ˈaɪvənˌhoʊ/) by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in December 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. It marked a shift away from Scott's...
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    Edinburgh Waverley (also known simply as Edinburgh; Scottish Gaelic: Waverley Dhùn Èideann) is the principal railway station serving Edinburgh, Scotland...
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    Rob Roy (1817) is a historical novel by Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. It is probably set in 1715, the year of the second Jacobite rising,...
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    The Talisman is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. Published in 1825 as the second of his Tales of the Crusaders, it is set during the Third...
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    Waverley novels. Red Gauntlet (1855–1876) Redgauntlet is one of the Waverley novels. Rob Roy (1855–1872) Rob Roy is the title of one of the Waverley novels...
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    opened in 1862. The line was nicknamed after the immensely popular Waverley Novels, written by Sir Walter Scott. The line was closed in 1969, as a result...
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    after Sir Walter Scott's first novel. She was built for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) to replace a PS Waverley that was sunk in 1940 while...
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    building on Princes Street and near Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station, which is named after Scott's Waverley novels. The tower is 200 feet 6 inches (61.11 m)...
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    Kenilworth. A Romance is a historical romance novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels, first published on 13 January 1821. Set in 1575,...
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    The Bride of Lammermoor (category Waverley Novels)
    Bride of Lammermoor is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1819, one of the Waverley novels. The novel is set in the Lammermuir Hills of...
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    The Monastery: a Romance (1820) is a historical novel by Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Set in the Scottish Borders in the 1550s on the eve...
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    The Antiquary (category Waverley Novels)
    The Antiquary (1816), the third of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott, centres on the character of an antiquary: an amateur historian, archaeologist...
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    title of novels by Harold Robbins and Frederick Marryat The Pirate (published at the end of 1821 with the date 1822) is one of the Waverley novels by Sir...
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    The Heart of Midlothian (category Waverley Novels)
    The Heart of Mid-Lothian is the seventh of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels. It was originally published in four volumes on 25 July 1818, under the...
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    Peveril of the Peak (category Waverley Novels)
    the longest novel by Sir Walter Scott. Along with Ivanhoe, Kenilworth, and Woodstock this is one of the English novels in the Waverley novels series, with...
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    The Abbot (redirect from The Abbot (novel))
    The Abbot (1820) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. A sequel to The Monastery, its action takes place in 1567 and...
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    One of the Waverley Novels by Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf was part of his Tales of My Landlord, 1st series (1816). It is set in 1708, in the Scottish...
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    Swabians and Saxons. Lichtenstein, modelled after the Waverley Novels, was a direct protest against the novel with a foreign historical background, and was an...
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    Old Mortality (category Waverley Novels)
    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...
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    A Legend of Montrose (category Waverley Novels)
    Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown on the 26th. As with all of the Waverley novels before 1827 publication was anonymous. The print run was probably 10...
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    River. Waverley was first settled by Charles Pillsbury Allen who established a chair factory in the area. Waverley was named after the Waverley novels by...
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  • The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels by Walter Scott appeared in thirty volumes between 1993 and 2012. Published by Edinburgh University Press...
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    Leixlip Castle (category Novels set in the 18th century)
    towards historical stories in the style of Walter Scott's popular Waverley novels. In Leixlip Castle he combined both elements in a supernatural story...
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    1954) was renamed Glen Waverley (from 1994 The Glen). The name "Waverley" comes from a novel by Sir Walter Scott. Major development occurred in the 1950s...
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    Redgauntlet (category Waverley Novels)
    Redgauntlet (1824) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels, set primarily in Dumfriesshire, southwest Scotland, in 1765...
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    reality, Walter Scott's historical novel Waverley (1814) broke with this tradition, and he invented "the true historical novel". At the same time he was influenced...
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