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• Title: Old Mortality
• Author : Sir Walter Scott
• Release Date : January 29, 2013
• Genre: Fiction & Literature,Books,Literary Criticism,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 106361 KB

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Considered one of Scott's best novels of his career, Old Mortality is part of his first series of Tales of My Landlord. The title is taken from the nickname of Robert Paterson, who became famous traveling Scotland to erect gravestones for the Covenanters, a group that played an integral role in the history of Scotland. The novel begins with an exchange between the fictitious narrator and Paterson and then goes on to tell the story of Henry Morton, a man who is harboring John Balfour, one of the assassins of Archbishop James Sharp. Morton joins Burley in an uprising of Covenanters. This causes internal conflict with Henry, as he is in love with Edith Bellenden, a member of an opposing family. The Covenanters are defeated during the rebellion, and as Henry attempts to flee the scene, he is captured and tried for treason by extremists of the group. He is rescued just before he is executed and forced into exile after testifying in court against the rebels. He returns to Scotland just after the overthrow of James VII and is reunited with Edith. Critics are unsure about the political statements Scott was attempting to weave into the storyline. He treats Robert Paterson, a Covenanter sympathizer, with respect and impartiality at the start of the novel, but clearly wishes the reader to identify with Henry Morton. While certainly a charged subject matter, most critics chalk the realism, interest and conflict of the story up to the genius characteristics of Scott's historical fiction.

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