Waverley Novels

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The Waverley Novels are a long series of books by Sir Walter Scott. Because he did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, they take their name from Waverley (1814), which was the first. The later books bore the words "By the author of Waverley" on their title pages.

More loosely, the term is used to refer to all of his novels. The Tales of my Landlord series were not advertised as "by the author of Waverley" and thus are not always included in this list.

Title	Published	Main setting	Period
Waverley, or, Tis Sixty Years Since	1814	Perthshire	1745-1746
Guy Mannering, or, The Astrologer	1815	Galloway	1760-5, 1781-2
The Antiquary	1816	Angus	1790s
Tales of My Landlord, 1st series:
The Black Dwarf	1816	Scottish Borders	1707
The Tale of Old Mortality	1816	Southern Scotland	1679-89
Rob Roy	1818	Loch Lomond	1715-16
Tales of my Landlord, 2nd series:
The Heart of Midlothian	1818	Edinburgh, London, Richmond	1736
Tales of my Landlord, 3rd series:
The Bride of Lammermoor	1819	East Lothian	1709-11
A Legend of Montrose	1819	Scottish Highlands	1644-5
Ivanhoe	1819	Yorkshire, Leicestershire	1194
The Monastery	1820	Scottish Borders	1547-57
The Abbot	1820	Various in Scotland	1567-8
Kenilworth	1821	Southern England	1575
The Pirate	1822	Shetland, Orkney	late 17th century
The Fortunes of Nigel	1822	London, Greenwich	1616-18
Peveril of the Peak	1822	Derbyshire, Isle of Man, London	1658-80
Quentin Durward	1823	Plessis-les-Tours, Liège, Peronne	1468
St. Ronan's Well	1824	Southern Scotland	1800s
Redgauntlet	1824	Southern Scotland, Cumberland	1766
Tales of the Crusaders:
The Betrothed	1825	Wales, Gloucester	1187-92
The Talisman	1825	Syria	1191
Woodstock, or, The Cavalier	1826	Woodstock, Windsor, Brussels	1652
Chronicles of the Canongate, 2nd series:
St Valentine's Day, or, The Fair Maid of Perth	1828	Perthshire	1396
Anne of Geierstein, or, The Maiden in the Mist	1829	Switzerland and Eastern France	1474-77
Tales of my Landlord, 4th series:
Count Robert of Paris	1831	Constantinople, Scutari	1097
Castle Dangerous	1831	Douglasdale	1307

1 Editions
2 Trivia
3 Related articles
4 External Links

[edit] Editions

The two definitive editions are the 48-volume set published between 1829 and 1833 by Robert Cadell (the "Magnum Opus"), based on previous editions, with new introductions and appendices by Scott, and the 30-volume set, based on manuscripts, published by the Edinburgh University Press and Columbia University Press in the 1990s.

[edit] Trivia

Some of the early editions were lavishly illustrated by George Cattermole.
The first series of Chronicles of the Canongate comprised several short stories.