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The origin of old mortality, perhaps the best of scotts historical romances, is well known. Buy a cheap copy of old mortality book by walter scott. In some quarters, though, scott was accused of caricaturing the covenanters and whitewashing the royalists. Old mortality was the first sir walter scott book i had the pleasure of picking up. Old mortality, novel by sir walter scott, published in 1816 and a masterpiece in the genre of historical romance. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama 1892 14804907843. This site is like a library, you could find million book here by. Start your 48hour free trial to unlock this old mortality study guide and get instant access. Old mortality is a novel by walter scott set in the period 167989 in south west scotland. This book is available for free download in a number of formats including epub, pdf, azw. You may copy it, give it away or reuse it under the terms of the project gutenberg license included with this ebook or online at. It forms, along with the black dwarf, the 1st series of scotts tales of my.
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