The Black Dwarf (novel)
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One of the Waverley Novels by Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf was part of his Tales of My Landlord, 1st series. It is set in 1708, in the Scottish Borders, against the background of the first uprising t
"Elshie, the Black Dwarf", from an 1886 printing of the novel by Adam and Charles Black
Old Mortality
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Old Mortality is one of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott. Set in south west Scotland, it forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the 1st series of his Tales of My Landlord. The novel deals with the peri
The Black Dwarf (novel)
…was to be entitled Tales of My Landlord which was planned to consist of four tales relating to four regions of Scotland. In the event the second tale, Old Mortality, expanded to take up the final three volumes, leaving The Black Dwarf as the only story to appear exactly as intended. It is not clear precisely when…
First edition title page
Old Mortality on the Scott Monument, Edinburgh, sculpted by Andrew Currie
Sculpture of "Old Mortality and His Pony" at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia
'Old Mortality', Balmaclellan