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Waverley

Sir Walter Scott

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1814
Pages
Pages 500

A young English officer posted to Scotland is swept into the 1745 Highland rising by a clan chief and the chief's fierce sister, who refuses him. The rising is crushed, the chief executed, and he marries the gentler woman.

the romance of his life was ended, and that its real history had now commenced.
Waverley, Sir Walter Scott

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