Tale of Old Mortality

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Tale of Old Mortality is written by Walter Scott and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1474433804 (ISBN 10) and 9781474433808 (ISBN 13).

The Tale of Old Mortality describes the lives - and often violent deaths - the hopes, and the struggles, of the Covenanters in late seventeenth-century Scotland. A tale of extremism, bigotry and cruelty, it is redeemed by its characters' courage and loyalty, and their passionate belief in religious and civil liberty. Considered to be one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century, its influence pervades European writing from Stendhal to Tolstoy.