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  • I have read Old Mortality before; it is perhaps Sir Walter Scott's best work of fiction. I have just re-read Mark Twain's mean-spirited attack on Scott, part of...
  • Old Mortality” was the last novel written by Scott before the malady which tormented his stoicism in 1817-1820.
  • Old Mortality on the Scott Monument, Edinburgh, sculpted by Andrew Currie. Old Mortality is one of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott.
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  • Old Mortality (1816), which many consider the finest of Scott's Waverley novels, is a swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal...
  • Here is a quick description and cover image of book Old Mortality written by Walter Scott which was published in July 30th 1975.
  • Sir Walter Scott's vivid way of writing makes you imagine that you are actually there and that person in time (as all story books are supposed to but these days...
  • This page provides a brief summary of the plot of Scott's novel The Tale of Old Mortality , contained in Tales of My Landlord , First Series...
  • This page contains details about the book Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott published in 1816.