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Miscellaneous Prose Available as E-Texts

Follow the links below for online texts of miscellaneous (non-fictional) prose by Scott made available by external sites. Only freely available texts have been listed. In most cases, the link will take you directly to the text. In others, it will direct you to a clickable list of the Scott texts published by the provider.

Where known, we have indicated the source edition for the e-text. Most providers, however, do not supply this information. For information on the provider and a full list of the Scott texts that they have made available online, see E-Texts by Provider.

The list of texts should not be regarded as comprehensive, but the page editor would be pleased to hear of any significant omissions. For further information on the original publications, see Works.

• A. Book-Length Texts (and Extracts)
• B. Selections
• C. Individual Essays

A. Book-Length Texts (and Extracts)

1. Journal
2. Letters of Malachi Malagrowther
3. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
4. Life of Napoleon Buonaparte
5. Tales of a Grandfather

1. The Journal of Sir Walter Scott

• Abacci Books
• Arthur's Classic Novels (from a 1970 reprint of the 1890 Burt Franklin edition)
• Bookrags
• Humanities Web (as above)
• Literature Network
• Munseys
• Project Gutenberg (as above)

Extracts:

• The Republic of Pemberley (Entry for March 14, 1826, on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice)

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2. Letters of Malachi Malagrowther

• Arthur's Classic Novels (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1841)
• English Server (as above)

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3. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

• Abacci Books
• Bookrags
• Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library (London: Routledge, 1885)
• Literature Network
• Munseys
• Project Gutenberg (London: Routledge, 1884)
• Reinhards Dreampage (London: Routledge, 1885)
• Sacred Texts (London: Routledge, 1885)

Extracts:

• Images of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce ('The Fian Warriors')
• Shroudeater ('Story of Assueit and Asmund'; Source Text: Centenary Edition, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1871)

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4. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte

• Making of America Books (New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1858)

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5. Tales of A Grandfather

• Images of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce (Extract: 'The Recapture of Edinburgh Castle from the English in 1313')

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B. Selections

1. Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. 1, pt. 6 (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1841)

• English Server
  • Contents: 'Essay on Chivalry' -- 'Essay on Romance' -- 'Essay on The Drama'.

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2. Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. 1, pt. 8 (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1841)

• Arthur's Classic Novels
• English Server
  • Contents: Letters of Malachi Malagrowther -- 'On Planting Waste Lands' -- 'On Landscape Gardening' -- 'Davy's Salmonia' -- 'Life of Kemble: Kelly's Reminiscences' -- 'Life and Works of John Home' -- 'Reliques of Robert Burns'.

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C. Individual Essays

1. 'Gabions of Abbotsford'

• Making of America Books (Source Text: Harpers Magazine, vol. 78, no. 467 (April 1889), pp. 778-89)

2. 'On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition'

• The Literary Gothic (the opening pages as published in The Foreign Quarterly Review, vol. I, no. 1 (1827), pp. 60-98, with footnotes added by The Literary Gothic site)

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3. 'Sterne'

• Bartleby (Source Text: Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, 1917.

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Last updated: 04-July-2008
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