Waverley

Waverley is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1814. Set in early 18th-century Scotland, it follows Edward Waverley, a young man torn between his traditional Scottish roots and the changing modern world. The story explores themes of adventure, identity, and the struggle to balance duty with personal desires. Renowned for its vivid descriptions of Scottish landscape and culture, Waverley is considered one of the first historical novels, blending fact and fiction to evoke a sense of time and place, and it helped establish Scott as a leading figure in English literature.