Historical novels. Book 7

Historical novels. Book 7.  Tales of My Landlord: 

1. The Black Dwarf; 2. Old Mortality; 3. The Heart of Midlothian; 4. The Bride of Lammermoor; 5. A Legend of Montrose; 6. Count Robert of Paris; 7. Castle Dangerous.


Tales of My Landlord


1st series:

- The Black Dwarf (Published: 1816)

- Old Mortality (Published: 1816) 


2nd series:

- The Heart of Midlothian (Published: 1818) 


3rd series:

- The Bride of Lammermoor (Published: 1819)  

- A Legend of Montrose (Published: 1819) 


4th series:

- Count Robert of Paris (Published: 1832) 

- Castle Dangerous (Published: 1832) 


Tales of my Landlord is a series of novels by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) that form a subset of the so-called Waverley Novels.

The story is set just after the Union of Scotland and England (1707), in the Liddesdale hills of the Scottish Borders, familiar to Scott from his work collecting ballads for The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. The main character is based on David Ritchie, whom Scott met in the autumn of 1797. In the tale, the dwarf is Sir Edward Mauley, a hermit regarded by the locals as being in league with the Devil, who becomes embroiled in a complex tale of love, revenge, betrayal, Jacobite schemes and a threatened forced marriage. Scott began the novel well, "but tired of the ground I had trode so often before... I quarrelled with my story, & bungled up a conclusion."