Scott, Walter – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:11:51 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Scott, Walter – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Supernatural short stories https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/supernatural-short-stories/ Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/supernatural-short-stories/ One of the main forces in early nineteenth-century literature, Sir Walter Scott was not
only among the greatest novelists of his time, but influenced generations of writers,
including literary giants such as Stendhal and Tolstoy. Though chiefly remembered
for his historical epics Ivanhoe, Rob Roy and Guy Mannering, Scott penned a
number of short stories which have been unjustly eclipsed by the enduring fame of
his longer works.

Mostly set in the Highlands of Scotland and presenting a vast array of memorable
characters, the stories in this collection are tinged with an element of the
supernatural or explore themes of murder and guilt, revealing the author’s great
talent in the shorter-fiction form. This volume also includes a long excerpt from
Scott’s Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, which questions how much credit can
be given to ghost stories and alleged supernatural occurrences.

]]> Waverley https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/waverley/ Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/waverley/ The first romantic historical novel and international bestseller, Waverley (1814) tells the story of Edward Waverley, a naïve, sensitive young man who is posted to Scotland with his regiment, and becomes caught between the clans of the Jacobite Rising and the forces of the Hanoverian regime. He must decide whether he will follow the civilization he has always known, or be drawn into an older world of honour and loyalty – and must also choose between the quiet, constant Rose, and the passionate, principled Flora.

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