Waverley

Complete and unabridged, with 45 full-page plates by Thomas Gainsborough, Joseph Wright of Derby and John Constable. An English officer of romantic temper is posted to Scotland in 1745, is captured by Highlanders, and finds himself at the Pretender's court with a commission he cannot honourably keep. Scott published it anonymously in 1814 and effectively invented the historical novel with it; ever...