by Walter Scott · W&N · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780460875943
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«Rob Roy» is the historical novel by Walter Scott, published by W&N in paperback (521 pages, in English).
Frank Osbaldistone, a young Englishman, travels to Scotland on his father's business and there meets the legendary outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor. He soon becomes caught up in a web of political and economic intrigue in the Highlands and in Glasgow, at the time of the Jacobite rising of 1715.
The work was originally published in 1817 and this edition belongs to the Everyman's Library collection.
For readers of classic English fiction, students of literature, and fans of historical adventures set in Scotland.
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature. He is known for his Waverley novels (1814–1831), which were, for nearly a century, among the most popular and widely read novels in Europe. He is also known for his narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810). He greatly influenced European and American literature.
