The Tale of Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott Edinburgh Edition

The Tale of Old Mortality\nby Sir Walter Scott\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Sir Walter Scott\nTitle: The Tale of Old Mortality\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Classic fiction: general and literary\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9780748604432\nISBN-10: 074860443X\nRRP: \u00A3115.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe Tale of Old Mortality describes the lives - and often violent deaths - the hopes, and the struggles, of the Covenanters in late seventeenth-century Scotland. A tale of extremism, bigotry and cruelty, it is redeemed by its characters'' courage and loyalty, and their passionate belief in religious and civil liberty. Considered to be one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century, its influence pervades European writing from Stendhal to T.