Old Mortality (Oxford World's Classics)

by SirWalterScott (Author), JaneStevenson (Editor), PeterDavidson (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $3.25

  A swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in 17th-century Scotland in the period infamous as the killing time. Henry Morton is torn between his love for a royalist's granddaughter and his loyalty to his downtrodden countrymen.

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  Paperback
  1975

  $3.25

  The story opens dramatically with the repercussions of the murder of the Archbishop of St.Andrews by a group of Covenanting Whigs and spans ten years of tumult: from the defeat of John Graham of Claverhouse by the covenanters at Drumclog, and the victory of the Duke of Monmouth over the Covenanters at Bothwell Bridge, to the aftermath of the batle at Killiecrankie in 1689.