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WALTER SCOTT

THE MAN WHO INVENTED SCOTLAND

By Carl H. Larsen

ou can’t go to Scotland tangled web we weave...when
without somehow being first we practice to deceive.”
Ycaught up in the many
memorials to the great Scottish After producing a substantial
writer, Sir Walter Scott. body of poetry, “Waverley”
was his first novel. Along
In Edinburgh, thousands of with its sequels and other of
commuters and travelers each day see quotations from Scott’s novels, he is credited with launching the genre of
his writings along the corridors of the city’s Waverley train historical fiction. Published anonymously and its author-
station, named for his runaway best-seller of 1814. ship an open secret, Scott did not acknowledge the wildly
successful “Waverley” was his work until 1827, 13 years
You may know of some of the aphorisms credited to this after its publication.
world-acclaimed author. “Revenge, the sweetest morsel
to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.” “Oh, what a A major tourist draw, just outside the station, is the “fan-

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