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

Contents

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.

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

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