Sir Walter Scott : Overview of one of his works

HIS WORKS

Fiction
A Legend of Montrose
Guy Mannering
Ivanhoe
Kenilworth
Old Mortality
Peveril of the Peak
Quentin Durward
Redgauntlet
Rob Roy
St. Ronan’s Well
The Abbot
The Antiquary – Volume I
The Antiquary – Volume II
The Betrothed
The Black Dwarf
The Bride of Lammermoor
The Chronicles of the Canongate
The Fair Maid of Perth
The Fortunes of Nigel
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
The Monastery
The Surgeon’s Daughter
The Talisman
Non-Fiction
Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott
Poetry Books
Marmion
Short Stories
The Tapestried Chamber
My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror
Poetry
Pibroch of Dunald Dhu
Romance of Dunois
The Dance of Death
The Field of Waterloo
The Lady of the Lake
The Troubadour
The Vision of Don Roderick

Ivanhoe
Author/Context

Sir Walter Scott was born in 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was born into a middle-class family, and soon took sick at the age of two. To help cure what is thought to have been infantile paralysis, Scott and his family moved into the country. In the picturesque countryside of his forefathers, Scott learned Scottish legends, ballads, and stories from his grandfather. These glimpses of the past would be a tool for Scott’s fiction later in life.

An avid reader, Scott loved Pope, Dryden, Swift, Johnson, Spenser, and Cervantes. He was infected by stories of knights and castles, even venturing to explore the ruins of ancient castles himself. While flexing his interest in stories of the past, Scott also studied to become a lawyer. But he would soon be a published writer, and that would occupy nearly the rest of his life.

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