The Waverley Novels, a series of more than two dozen historical novels published by Sir Walter Scott between 1814 and 1832. Although the novels were extremely popular and strongly promoted at the time, he did not publicly reveal his authorship of them until 1827. Notable works in the series include Waverley (1814), Guy Mannering (1815), Rob Roy (1817), The Heart of Midlothian (1818), Ivanhoe (1819), Kenilworth (1821), Quentin Durward (1823), and Redgauntlet (1824). Some of the novels were originally published in a four-part series titled Tales of My Landlord. All the stories were published together in a 48-volume series called Waverley Novels (1829–33), containing Scott’s prefaces and final revisions but completed after his death. The series influenced generations of writers and earned Scott his reputation as the founder of the historical novel genre.
Scott’s early Waverley books deal with several different phases of Scottish history and were noted for their characterizations of ordinary people and their use of regional Scottish dialect. These novels often concern the clash between heroic traditions of the past and practical visions of the future. Waverley, for example, treats the tensions between the Jacobites and the Hanoverians in the mid-18th century, while The Heart of Midlothian addresses the social conflict following the Porteous Riots of 1736 over the execution of a smuggler. Scott set his other novels in historical periods dating to the Middle Ages in locales such as
England, France, Palestine, and the Orkney Islands.
Edward Waverley, an English gentleman of honour, chooses an occupation in the army at the time just before the Jacobite uprising of 1745 on advice of his father. He has an officer's commission. On leave from army training, he visits friends of his family in Scotland, as he is not far from their place. He enjoys their Scottish hospitality. His head is full of the romantic notions of his unstructured education, including much reading, and he is startled to find himself in the midst of loyalists who support the return of the House of Stuart and the Stuart prince, known as Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Young Chevalier to his
supporters and as the Younger Pretender to his foes. His honour is often
challenged as others interfere to push him to the Stuart side, where he is in battle, and he meets two women with whom he falls in love in turn, until he chooses one. His gentlemanly actions gain him friends in this precarious situation, on both sides of the uprising, who stand him in good stead when he is at risk from his own government when the uprising is put down.
Scott chose to publish his later novels as being "by the author of Waverley". His series of works on similar themes written during the same period have become collectively known as the "Waverley Novels". The novel was well-received by contemporary critics, and well-liked by those who purchased novels in the early 19th century. It has continued in
favour with later critics.
In 1818 Scott was granted a baronetcy, becoming Sir Walter Scott. It was an open secret that he was "the author of Waverley", and he admitted this at a public dinner in 1827
The first edition of Waverley, in three volumes, consisting of 1000 copies, was published in Edinburgh on 7 July 1814 by Archibald Constable and Co. and in London later in the month by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.[6] As with all the Waverley novels before 1827, publication was anonymous. The price was one guinea (£1.05).
The first edition was followed by two further editions, together comprising 4000 copies, in the same year, with small authorial revisions, and by several more editions extending into the early 1820s: Scott was involved in at least one of these, the sixth edition of 1816. In early 1826 Scott returned to Waverley, revising the text and writing an introduction and notes for a complete edition of the Waverley Novels: this took some time to materialise after the 1826 financial crash, but eventually the novel appeared as the first and second volumes of the 'Magnum' edition in June and July 1829.
The first critical edition, by Claire Lamont, was published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford, in 1981.
The standard edition is now that edited by P. D. Garside in 2007, as the first volume of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels: this is
first volume of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels: this is based on the first edition with emendations to restore authorial readings from the manuscript and the second and third editions.
Twenty-five volumes of the centenary edition of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. With an illustrated frontispiece to every volume and a facsimile of 'The Marriage Contract of the Bride of Lammermoor' to volume VIII. Collated, complete. The titles included are as follows: Volume I- Waverley Volume II- Guy Mannering Volume III- Antiquary Volume IV- Rob Roy Volume V- Old Mortality Volume VI- A Legend of Montrose and Black Dwarf Volume VII- Heart of Mid-Lothian Volume VIII-Bride of Lammermoor Volume IX- Ivanhoe Volume X- Monastery Volume XI- Abbot Volume XII- Kenilworth Volume XIII- Pirate Volume XIV- Fortunes of Nigel Volume XV- Peveril of the Peak Volume XVI- Quentin Durward Volume XVII- St Ronan's Well Volume XVIII- Redgauntlet Volume XIX- Betrothed and Highland Widow Volume XX- Talisman Volume XXI- Woodstock Volume XXII- Fair Maid of Perth Volume XXIII- Anne of Geierstein Volume XXIV- Count Robert of Paris Volume XXV- Castle Dangerous Surgeons Daughter The Waverley novels are a long series of novels by Sir Walter Scott.
They were the most popular and widely read novels in Europe for almost a century. The series was titled Waverley, after the first novel of the series, as Scott did not claim authorship until 1827. Prior to Scott's acknowledgement of his authorship the novels were stated as 'by the author of Waverley' to their title pages. Sir Walter Scott was a historical
novelist, playwright and poet
Waverly, or 'tis Sixty Years Since can be an infuriating book. Even those accustomed to the leisurely movement of 19th century prose will find its style not only wordy but also occasionally infelicitous, its plot not only meandering but also digressive. It takes at least a q ...more
When Waverley was published in 1814, Scott was already famous as the author of The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake, as well as his collection of Scottish ballads and a few other poems which were less successful. He had first begun this novel in 18 ...more
Waverley is my first Walter Scott experience. I've been meaning to read him for a long time now and am glad to have put a step forward in that direction. My choice of Waverley as the first read of Walter Scott is due to the historic time period it was set in. The history and ...more
Much like Ivanhoe in Ivanhoe, the Waverley of Waverley isn't the true hero of this story. And, much like Ivanhoe did with the Crusades, this paints a picture of what life was like for the lesser knowns, the less influential but no less heroic or passionate of a failed
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