Author:Walter Scott

Walter Scott
(1771–1832)

Baronet; Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe during his time

Walter Scott

Works

Prose

The following list of prose works is derived from The Waverley Dictionary: An Alphabetical Arrangement of all the Characters in Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels, a Descriptive Analysis of each Character, and Illustrative Selections from the Text (1885), by May Rogers

The Waverley Novels

  • Waverley (1814) 3rd ed: IA 1, IA 2
  • Guy Mannering (1815)
  • The Antiquary (1816) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
  • The Black Dwarf (1816)
  • Old Mortality (1816)
  • Rob Roy (1818) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3
  • The Heart of Midlothian (1818)
  • The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)
  • A Legend of Montrose (1819)
  • Ivanhoe (1820) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
  • The Monastery (1820) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
  • The Abbot (1820) IA
  • Kenilworth (1821)
  • The Pirate (1822) IA
  • The Fortunes of Nigel (1822) IA
  • Peveril of the Peak (1822)
  • Quentin Durward (1823)
  • St. Ronan's Well (1824) IA
  • Redgauntlet (1824)
  • The Betrothed (1825)
  • The Talisman (1825)
  • Woodstock (1826)
  • Chronicles of the Canongate, 1st series. (1827)
    • Chrystal Croftangry's Narrative
    • The Highland Widow
    • The Two Drovers
    • The Surgeon's Daughter
  • St. Valentine's Day, or The Fair Maid of Perth; in Chronicles of the Canongate, 2nd series (1828)
  • Anne of Geierstein (1829) IA
  • Count Robert of Paris (1831)
  • Castle Dangerous (1831)

Minor Tales

Other

Poetry

Poetry collections

As editor

  • The Works of John Dryden (18 volumes)
  • A collection of scarce and valuable tracts, on the most interesting and entertaining subjects (also known as Somers' Tracts)
  • The state papers and letters of Sir Ralph Sadler
  • The Poetical Works of Anna Seward
  • The Works of Jonathan Swift
  • Auld Robin Gray

Uncategorized

  • The Bishop of Tyre
  • The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland (1814 – 1817)
  • The Chase (translator) (1796) (transcription project)
  • The Doom of Devorgoil (1830)
  • Essays on Ballad Poetry (1830)
  • (tr.)Goetz of Berlichingen (1799)
  • Halidon Hall (1822)
  • History of Scotland (1829 –1830), in 2 vols.
  • Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, (1831)
  • The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte (1827)
  • Lives of the Novelists (1821-1824)
  • On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition; and particularly on the works of Ernest Theodore William Hoffman (1830)
  • Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk (1816)
  • Provincial Antiquities of Scotland (1819 – 1826)
  • Religious Discourses (1828)
  • Tales from Benedictine Sources, consisting of The Abbot and The Monastery, (1820)
  • Tales of a Grandfather, 1st series (1828)
  • Tales of a Grandfather, 2nd series (1829)
  • Tales of a Grandfather, 3rd series (1830)
  • (tr.) The Chase and William and Helen: two ballads, from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürger (1796)
  • The Tapestried Chamber
  • "Wandering Willie's Tale" in Weird Tales, 7 (1) (January 1926)

Works attributed to Scott

  • "Description of the Ua More, a remarkable Cavern on the Coast of Sutherland" in Forget Me Not for 1826 (1825) (transcription project)

Works about Scott


Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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