The Fortunes of Nigel
READING AGE 16+
(1822)
The eighth title in Scotts' Waverley novels,
the others being;
Waverley (1814),
Guy Mannering (1815),
The Antiquary (1816),
Rob Roy (1818),
Ivanhoe (1819),
Kenilworth (1821),
The Pirate (1822),
Peveril of the Peak (1822),
Quentin Durward (1823),
St. Ronan's Well (1824),
Redgauntlet (1824),
Tales of the Crusaders: The Betrothed and The Talisman (1825),
Woodstock (1826),
Chronicles of the Canongate: The Fair Maid of Perth (1828), and
Anne of Geierstein (1829).
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Note I. p. l4.--DAVID RAMSAY
David Ramsay, watchmaker and horologer to James I., was a real person,
though the author has taken the liberty of pressing him into the
service of fiction. Although his profession led him to cultivate the
exact sciences, like many at this period he mingled them with pursuits
which were m……
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