Scottish

'It was early in a fine summer's day, near the end of the eighteenth century, when a...

The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the...

This generous new selection offers Burns's work as it was first encountered by...

This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the...

More than a century after the Norman Conquest, England remains a colony of foreign...

Old Mortality (1816), which many consider the finest of Scott's Waverley novels, is a...

Far and wide was 'Redgauntlet' hated and feared. Men thought he had a direct compact...

For the most popular of his Scottish romances, published at the end of 1817, Scott drew...

The 18th century saw Scotland become one of the leading international centres of...

Set against the backdrop of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Waverley depicts the story...