Tales of My Landlord
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. There are four series:
Title | Published | Main setting | Period |
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Tales of My Landlord, 1st series: | |||
The Black Dwarf | 1816 | Scottish Borders | 1707 |
The Tale of Old Mortality | 1816 | Southern Scotland | 1679–89 |
Tales of my Landlord, 2nd series: | |||
The Heart of Midlothian | 1818 | Edinburgh, Richmond, London, | 1736 |
Tales of my Landlord, 3rd series: | |||
The Bride of Lammermoor | 1819 | East Lothian | 1709–11 |
A Legend of Montrose | 1819 | Scottish Highlands | 1644–5 |
Tales of my Landlord, 4th series: | |||
Count Robert of Paris | 1832 | Constantinople, Scutari | 1097 |
Castle Dangerous | 1832 | Kirkcudbrightshire | 1307 |
Of these, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor have been the most successful, and Old Mortality is considered by modern critics to be among Scott's best work. The fourth were the least successful.
They were so called because they were supposed to be tales collected from the (fictional) landlord of the Wallace Inn at Gandercleugh, compiled by a "Peter Pattieson", and edited and sent to the publisher by Jedediah Cleishbotham. This is gone into in great depth in the introduction to The Black Dwarf.
The first series was planned to comprise four volumes, each containing a separate novel, but Scott – by his own admission – botched The Black Dwarf, and Old Mortality came to be three volumes in its own right. [1]. The other three series thus consisted of two volumes each, or just one, in the case of the second.
They were supposed to reflect aspects of Scottish regional life.
See also
- Waverley Novels
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- Queenhoo Hall (1808)
- Waverley (1814)
- Guy Mannering (1815)
- The Antiquary (1816)
- The Black Dwarf (1816)
- Old Mortality (1816)
- Rob Roy (1817)
- The Heart of Midlothian (1818)
- The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)
- A Legend of Montrose (1819)
- Ivanhoe (1819)
- The Monastery (1820)
- The Abbot (1820)
- Kenilworth (1821)
- The Pirate (1821)
- The Fortunes of Nigel (1822)
- Peveril of the Peak (1823)
- Quentin Durward (1823)
- Saint Ronan's Well (1823)
- Redgauntlet (1824)
- The Betrothed (1825)
- The Talisman (1825)
- Woodstock (1826)
- The Fair Maid of Perth (1828)
- Anne of Geierstein (1829)
- Count Robert of Paris (1831)
- Castle Dangerous (1831)
- The Siege of Malta (1831–1832, pub. posthumously 2008)
- Bizarro (1832, pub. posthumously 2008)
- Translations and Imitations from German Ballads (1796–1819)
- "Glenfinlas" (1800)
- Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802–1803)
- The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
- Ballads and Lyrical Pieces (1806)
- Marmion (1808)
- The Lady of the Lake (1810)
- The Vision of Don Roderick (1811)
- The Bridal of Triermain (1813)
- Rokeby (1813)
- The Field of Waterloo (1815)
- The Lord of the Isles (1815)
- Harold the Dauntless (1817)
- Chronicles of the Canongate, 1st series (1827)
- "The Keepsake Stories" (1828)
- The letters (1788–1832)
- "Abstract of the Eyrbiggia-Saga" (1814)
- "Memoirs" (1808–1826)
- The Journal (1825–1832)
- Tales of a Grandfather (1828–1831)
- Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (1830)
- Manners, customs and history of the Highlanders of Scotland; Historical account of the clan MacGregor. (1893, posthumously)
- Halidon Hill (1822)
- MacDuff's Cross (1823)
- The Doom of Devorgoil (1830)
- Auchindrane (1830)
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