Anne of Geierstein

Anne of Geierstein, first published in three volumes in 1829 by Cadell and Co., Edinburgh and Simpkin and Marshall in London, is a product of Sir Walter Scott’s late period. Unlike, for instance, Ivanhoe, Redgauntlet, or Rob Roy, it is not one of his popular or well known works. The setting is the Forest Cantons of Switzerland in the last quarter of the fifteenth century. The central themes of the novel are political chaos and violence ‐ a consequence of a mixture of peoples from differing traditions, ethnic backgrounds and value systems and ever‐changing territorial boundaries. The...