Waverley

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'the most romantic parts of this narrative are precisely those which have a foundation in fact' Edward Waverley a young English soldier in the Hanoverian army is sent to Scotland where he finds himself caught up in events that quickly transform from the stuff of romance into nightmare His character is fashioned through his experience of the Jacobite rising of 1745-6 the last civil war fought on British soil & the unsuccessful attempt to reinstate the Stuart monarchy represented by Prince Charles Edward Waverley's love for the spirited Flora Mac Ivor & his romantic nature increasingly pull him towards the Jacobite cause & test his loyalty to the utmost With Waverley Scott invented the historical novel in its modern form & profoundly influenced the development of the European & American novel for a century at least Waverley asks the reader to consider how history is shaped who owns it & what it means to live in it
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