Open figure viewer
Perhaps not as well known as Rob Roy (1818) or Ivanhoe (1820), Guy Mannering: or, The Astrologer (1815), the second of Scott’s novels to be published, went through six editions within the first five years of its publication. Scott wrote in his 1830 Preface to the Waverley Novels that “The Novel … made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt .… The tale was originally told me by an old servant of my father’s, an excellent old highlander, without a fault,...
You do not currently have access to this content.
