The Abbot
by Walter Scott
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About This Book
"The course of life to which Mary and her little retinue were doomed, was in the last degree secluded and lonely, varied only as the weather permitted or rendered impossible the Queen's usual walk in the garden, or on the battlements." - from The Abbot.They were the literary phenomenon of their time: The Waverly novels, 48 volumes set in fanciful re-creations of the Scottish Highlands (and other lands) of centuries past, published between 1814 and 1831 and devoured by a reading public hungry for these sweeping, interconnected melodramas. The series popularized historical fiction, though they'r...
Chapters (43)
- THE ABBOT
- BEING THE SEQUEL TO THE MONASTERY
- INTRODUCTION—(1831.)
- INTRODUCTORY EPISTLE.
- THE ABBOT.
- Chapter the First.
- Chapter the Second.
- Chapter the Third.
- Chapter the Fourth.
- Chapter the Fifth.
- Chapter the Sixth.
- Chapter the Seventh.
- Chapter the Eight.
- Chapter the Ninth.
- Chapter the Tenth.
- Chapter the Eleventh.
- Chapter the Twelfth.
- Chapter the Thirteenth.
- Chapter the Fourteenth.
- Chapter the Fifteenth.
- Chapter the Sixteenth.
- Chapter the Seventeenth.
- Chapter the Eighteenth.
- Chapter the Nineteenth.
- Chapter the Twentieth.
- Chapter the Twenty-First.
- Chapter the Twenty-Second.
- Chapter the Twenty-Third.
- Chapter the Twenty-Fourth.
- Chapter the Twenty-Fifth.
- Chapter the Twenty-Sixth.
- Chapter the Twenty-Seventh.
- Chapter the Twenty-Eighth.
- Chapter the Twenty-Ninth.
- Chapter the Thirtieth.
- Chapter the Thirty-First.
- Chapter the Thirty-Second.
- Chapter the Thirty-Third.
- Chapter the Thirty-Fourth.
- Chapter the Thirty-Fifth.
- Chapter the Thirty-Sixth.
- Chapter the Thirty-Seventh.
- Chapter the Thirty-Eighth.
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