"Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since" by Walter Scott is a historical novel published anonymously in 1814. Young English officer Edward Waverley is commissioned into a Scottish regiment on the eve of the 1745 Jacobite uprising. Visiting Scotland, he discovers his host supports the exiled Prince Charles Edward Stuart. Torn between Crown loyalty and the romance of rebellion, Waverley must navigate treacherous allegiances as he's drawn deeper into the conflict that will reshape his life and Scotland's future. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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