num_pages: 608
description: Perhaps the finest and certainly the most readable of Scott's Waverley novels, Old Mortality is a swift-moving historical romance that pits an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland - the period notorious as "the killing time." Its central character, Henry Morton, finds himself torn between his love for a royalist's granddaughter and his loyalty to his oppressed countrymen.
language: English
title: Old Mortality
titlecomplete: Old Mortality (Penguin English Library ; El 98)
characters: James Sharp, Archbishop of St. Andrews, Lady Margaret Bellenden, Basil Olifant, Alison Wilson, Silas Morton, Robert Paterson, Edith Bellenden, Lord Evandale, John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, Major Miles Bellenden of Charnwood, Gabriel Kettledrummle, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, Jedediah Cleishbotham, William Cleland, Mause Headrigg, Elizabeth Maclure, William III of England and II of Scotland, John Graham of Claverhouse, Jenny Dennison, Goose-Gibbie, Martha Buskbody, Tam Dalyell of the Binns, Lady Emily Hamilton, Ephraim Macbriar, Henry Morton, Cuddie Headrigg, Neil Blane, Peter Pattieson, Habakkuk Mucklewrath, John Balfour of Burley
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, British Literature, Historical, Scotland, Historical Fiction, Literature, Adventure, Novels
ratings_count: 527
places: Tillietudlem, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Scotland, Drumclog, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Lanarkshire, Scotland
series: Tales of My Landlord
publisher: Penguin Classics