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Walter Scott E-Texts Available from this Site

Click on the links below to access Walter Scott e-texts, including the only available e-texts of The Letters of Sir Walter Scott, Tales of a Grandfather, and An Apology for Tales of Terror. For links to Scott e-texts available from other sites, click here.

Poetry | Novels | Short Fiction | Correspondence | Prose Works

Poetry

The Walter Scott Digital Archive is pleased to announce a new addition to these pages: a critical edition of one of Scott's first published works, the ballad anthology An Apology for Tales of Terror (1799), prepared by Douglass H. Thomson (Georgia Southern University). Together with poems by M. G. Lewis, Robert Southey, and John Aikin, the Apology contains three translations by Scott of German ballads: 'The Chase', 'William and Helen' (both from Bürger) and 'The Erl-King' (from Goethe). Professor Thomson's edition provides a textual history and pages on German-Scottish literary links, Scott's relationship with M. G. Lewis, and the poets represented in the anthology. An Appendix presents an online critical edition of Scott's important 'Essay on Imitations of the Ancient Ballad' (1830).

• An Apology for Tales of Terror

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Novels

The Walter Scott Digital Archive would like to thank AHDS Literature, Languages, and Linguistics for their generosity in supplying the follwing texts of Scott's novels and short fiction:

• The Antiquary

• Ivanhoe (Edinburgh: Constable, 1895)

• Castle Dangerous

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Short Fiction

• Chronicles of the Canongate (Edinburgh: Constable, 1896)

  • Note on Text
  • Introduction
• Appendix to Introduction
• Mr Chrystal Croftangry's account of Himself.
• Notes to Mr Chystal Croftangry's Narrative
• 'The Highland Widow'
• Notes to 'The Highland Widow'
• Introduction to 'The Two Drovers'
• 'The Two Drovers'
• Notes to 'The Two Drovers'
• Introduction to 'The Surgeon's Daughter'
• Mr Croftangry's Preface
• 'The Surgeon's Daughter
• Mr Croftangry's Conclusion
  
  

• The Keepsake Stories (Edinburgh: Constable, 1896)
  

• Note on Text
• 'My Aunt Margaret's Mirror'
• 'The Tapestried Chamber'
• 'Death of the Laird's Jock'

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Correspondence

The Walter Scott Digital Archive would like to thank Professor Takero Sato for his generosity in making the following texts available:

• The Letters of Sir Walter Scott

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Prose Works

The Walter Scott Digital Archive would like to thank Professor Takero Sato and Professor Douglass H. Thomson for their generosity in making the following texts available:

• Tales of a Grandfather

• 'Essay on Imitations of the Ancient Ballad'

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Last updated: 11-Dec-2007
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