Old Mortality
By Sir Walter Scott
22 Oct, 2019
Old Mortality is a novel by Walter Scott set in the period 1679–89 in southwest Scotland. It forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the 1st series of Scott's Tales of My Landlord. The two novels were published together in 1816. Old Mortality is conside
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Old Mortality is a novel by Walter Scott set in the period 1679–89 in southwest Scotland. It forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the 1st series of Scott's Tales of My Landlord. The two novels were published together in 1816. Old Mortality is considered one of Scott's best novels...........The central character, Henry Morton, finds himself torn between his love for a royalist's granddaughter and his loyalty to his oppressed countrymen. Less