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ISBN	9780199555307
Book Title	Old Mortality
Book Series	Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Publisher	Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Length	7.7 in
Publication Year	2009
Format	Trade Paperback
Language	English
Item Height	1.1 in
Author	Walter Scott
Genre	Literary Criticism, Fiction
Topic	War & Military, General, Historical
Item Weight	14.9 Oz
Item Width	5 in
Number of Pages	624 Pages

Old Mortality, Paperback by Scott, Walter, Sir; Stevenson, Jane (EDT); Davidson, Peter (EDT), ISBN 0199555303, ISBN-13 9780199555307, Brand New, Free shipping in the USOld Mortality (1816), which many consider the finest of Scott's Waverley novels, is a swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland, in the period infamous as the `killing time'. Its central character, Henry Morton, joins the rebels in order to fight Scotland's royalist oppressors, little as he shares the Covenanters' extreme religious beliefs. He is torn between his love for a royalist's granddaughter and his loyalty to his downtrodden countrymen. As well as being a tale of divided loyalties, the novel is a crucial document in the cultural history of modern Scotland. Scott, himself a supporter of the union between Scotland and England, was trying to exorcise the violent past of a country uncomfortably coming to terms with its status as part of a modern United Kingdom. This novel is in itself a significant political document, in which Scott can be seen to be attempting to create a new centralist Scottish historiography, which is not the political consensus of his own time, the seventeenth century, or today. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.