Waverley

Edward Waverley, a young English soldier, is caught up in the Jacobite rising of 1745-6, the last civil war fought on British soil and the attempt to reinstate the Stuart monarchy. With Waverley Scott invented the modern historical novel and profoundly influenced the development of European and American fiction for a century at least.

Edward Waverley, un tanar soldat englez, este prins de rasaritul jacobit din 1745-6, ultimul razboi civil purtat pe pamantul britanic si incercarea de a restabili monarhia Stuart. Cu Waverley, Scott a inventat romanul istoric modern si a influentat profund dezvoltarea fictiunii europene si americane cel putin un secol.