Waverley

Walter Scott · 1814 CE · Novel · English · Romantic

Edward Waverley, an English officer raised on his uncle's library of romances, takes leave from his regiment in 1745 and rides north into a Scotland his reading has not prepared him for. The Baron of Bradwardine's household, the chieftain Fergus Mac-Ivor and Fergus's sister Flora pull him steadily toward the Jacobite side. The book that invented the historical novel, and named the twenty-six that followed it.

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• ↓ Barnaby Rudge
  Charles Dickens · 1841 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ Taras Bulba
  Nikolai Gogol · 1835 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ The Captain's Daughter
  Alexander Pushkin · 1836 CE · Novel — modeled on this
• ↓ Before the Storm
  Theodor Fontane · 1878 CE · Novel — influenced by this

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