num_pages: 501
description: When young Francis Osbaldistone discovers that his vicious and scheming cousin Rashleigh has designs both on his father's business and his beloved Diana Vernon, he turns in desperation to Rob Roy for help. Chieftain of the MacGregor clan, Rob Roy is a brave and fearless man, able and cunning. But he is also an outlaw with a price on his head, and as he and Francis join forces to pursue Rashleigh, he is constantly aware that he, too, is being pursued—and could be captured at any moment.Set on the eve of the 1715 Jacobite uprising, Rob Roy brilliantly evokes a Scotland on the verge of rebellion, blending historical fact and a novelist's imagination to create an incomparable portrait of intrigue, rivalry and romance.
language: English
title: Rob Roy
titlecomplete: Rob Roy (Waverley Novels, #4)
characters: Rob Roy MacGregor, Helen MacGregor, Andrew Fairservice, Bailie Nicol Jarvie, John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Francis Osbaldistone, Diana Vernon
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, British Literature, Historical, Classic Literature, Scotland, Historical Fiction, Literature, Adventure
ratings_count: 9747
places: Scotland, The Trossachs, Stirlingshire, Scotland
publisher: Penguin Classics