{"product_id":"2026200006540-secondhand-waverley-or-tis-sixty-years-since-the-surgeons-daughter","title":"Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since: The Surgeon's Daughter","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 571\/1000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: No markings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark work of historical fiction, Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since chronicles the journey of Edward Waverley, a young English officer whose romantic idealism draws him into the turbulent heart of the Jacobite rising of 1745, as he navigates shifting loyalties between the Hanoverian crown and the charismatic Highland clans rallying behind Bonnie Prince Charlie. With sweeping drama and rich atmospheric detail, Scott illustrates the collision of two worlds — the ordered, modern English sensibility and the passionate, ancient culture of the Scottish Highlands — using Waverley's personal transformation as a lens through which the tragedy of a dying way of life comes into sharp focus. Bound within the same volume, The Surgeon's Daughter presents a quieter but equally compelling tale of ambition and betrayal, following Menie Gray, whose fate becomes entangled with the schemes of a charming and unscrupulous adventurer whose path leads from a Scottish village to the courts of colonial India. Scott's prose carries a tone that is at once elegiac and adventurous, mourning lost causes while celebrating the vivid human characters caught within them. Together, these two narratives stand as masterful examples of the Romantic historical novel, cementing Scott's enduring reputation as the father of the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48820245954779,"sku":"2026200006540-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/8be8faf1-9fae-4028-add6-7a49d3a32448.png?v=1780055562","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200006540-secondhand-waverley-or-tis-sixty-years-since-the-surgeons-daughter","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}