Shorter Fiction

Walter Scott, edited by Graham Tulloch

September, 2007
Cloth, 272 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-0589-7
Edinburgh University Press
$70.00

Scott wrote short stories throughout his career. Some are inset into novels but others were published separately in periodicals. This collection of eight pieces of shorter fiction from periodicals extends from a satirical piece appearing in 1811 in The Edinburgh Annual Register through stories from The Sale-Room and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine to four stories published late in his life in The Keepsake. Only three of these stories were regularly reprinted. The other five are here made readily available for the first time, and show both Scott’s versatility and his continuous exploration of the possibilities of fiction.

Related Subjects

• Fiction

Series

• Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels (Edinburgh University Press)

About the Author

Graham Tulloch is Professor of English at the Flinders University of South Australia

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