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Old Mortality Volume 2

Author
Walter Scott
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
8 hours 17 minutes
ISBN
9781802565393
Published
20 April 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • 17th-Century Scotland
  • Henry Morton
  • Royalists
  • Covenanters
  • Old Mortality
  • Political Conflict
  • Religious Strife
  • Personal Sacrifices
  • Love
  • Loyalty

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Description

"Old Mortality" by Walter Scott is a historical novel set in 17th-century Scotland. The story revolves around Henry Morton, a young man caught in the conflicts between Royalists and Covenanters. With the fanatical Old Mortality, he journeys through a politically charged landscape marked by religious strife and personal sacrifices. Scott weaves a tale of love, loyalty, and the tumultuous events of the Bishops' Wars. Against a backdrop of historical events, the characters confront moral dilemmas and navigate the complex web of politics and religion. "Old Mortality" stands as a powerful exploration of the human cost of ideological battles in a turbulent period.

Author

Walter Scott (1771–1832) invented the historical novel as a popular art. Waverley, Ivanhoe, and Rob Roy taught Europe that the past could be walked through — tartan, crusade, and the clash of Highland and Hanoverian as living weather, not a school lesson. A poet and an Edinburgh lawyer before the novels made him famous, Scott wrote at a pace that built Abbotsford and a nation's tourist imagination.

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