1. Waverley
Edward Waverley is a young English officer whose romantic education has left him poorly prepared for political conflict. Sent to Scotland in 1745, he visits the Jacobite Baron Bradwardine and then enters the Highland world of Fergus and Flora Mac-Ivor. When his association with suspected rebels…
2. Guy Mannering
Harry Bertram, heir to the Ellangowan estate, is kidnapped as a child by the smuggler Dirk Hatteraick at the instigation of the corrupt lawyer Gilbert Glossin. Raised in the Netherlands as Vanbeest Brown, he later serves in India under Colonel Guy Mannering and falls in love…
3. The Antiquary
A young officer travelling under the name Lovel arrives in the Scottish town of Fairport and becomes the companion of Jonathan Oldbuck, a learned but argumentative collector of antiquities. Lovel loves Isabella Wardour, whose indebted father rejects a suitor believed to be illegitimate, and soon becomes…
6. Rob Roy
Frank Osbaldistone rejects his father’s London trading house and is sent to live among his Jacobite relatives in Northumberland. There he falls in love with Diana Vernon and distrusts his calculating cousin Rashleigh, who takes Frank’s place in the family business. When Rashleigh steals documents capable…
7. The Heart of Midlothian
Edinburgh in 1736 is shaken when a crowd breaks into the Old Tolbooth and lynches Captain John Porteous after his reprieve from a murder sentence. The riot intersects with the fate of Effie Deans, who is imprisoned under a law presuming that a woman who conceals…
10. Ivanhoe
Wilfred of Ivanhoe returns secretly to England in 1194 after fighting beside Richard I on the Third Crusade. He has been disinherited by his Saxon father Cedric for serving the Norman king and loving Rowena, whom Cedric intends to marry into a restored Saxon line. At…
17. Quentin Durward
Quentin Durward leaves poverty in Scotland to seek service with the Scottish Guard of Louis XI of France. At the king’s court he meets Isabelle de Croye, a Burgundian heiress resisting a forced marriage, and is assigned to escort her towards the protection of the Bishop…
23. Chronicles of the Canongate
Chrystal Croftangry, a failed Edinburgh gentleman living in the Canongate, presents three stories gathered from the memories of friends. In “The Highland Widow”, a mother formed by the defeated Jacobite world destroys the son who chooses service in a government regiment. “The Two Drovers” follows a…