Sir Walter Scott
By John Buchan
1932
First Published
4.23
Average Rating
387
Number of Pages
Buchan vividly and affectionately describes the writer whose novels and poems made him the most popular author of his day. Scott was born in 1771 to a powerful Border family. Buchan is eminently qualified to write with sympathy about his Scottish upbringing, disappointment in love and decline into illness and bankruptcy. His feeling for Scott's novels brings them alive and provide a deeper understanding of such major works as ‘Ivanhoe' and ‘Waverley'.
Avg Rating
4.23
Number of Ratings
31
5 STARS
52%
4 STARS
26%
3 STARS
19%
2 STARS
0%
1 STARS
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