Sir Walter Scott by John Buchan
A vivid, compact portrait of the great Scottish novelist and poet who shaped the historical novel and popularized his nation’s ballad and antiquarian traditions. It follows his upbringing and legal career, his rise to fame with sweeping historical romances that combined scholarship and storytelling, his central role in forming Romantic ideas about Scotland, the financial collapse of his publishers and the prodigious writing he undertook to repay debts, and his final years—blending literary criticism and personal sympathy to explain both his achievements and faults.
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