Walter Scott E-Texts by Provider

E-Texts by Provider

Listed alphabetically below are all the sites that we have traced which offer Walter Scott e-texts. In each case, we provide a full list of the texts offered. Click on the site name to go to that site's own index. Click on individual titles to go directly to the text.

To search texts by genre (Novels, Short Fiction, Longer Poems, Short Poems, Miscellaneous Prose, Correspondence, Works edited by Scott), go to our Index page.

For those not wishing to browse the entire list, the following sites offer especially strong selections in particular genres:

Novels: Munseys (24 novels), Project Gutenberg (23), Arthur's Classic Novels (22), Knowledgerush (21), Bookrags, Literature Network, Making of America Books (17 each).
Short Fiction: Knowledgerush, Project Gutenberg (6 texts each), Arthur's Classic Novels, Munseys (5 each).
Longer Poems: Oldpoetry (8 poems), Making of America Books (6), Bookrags, Literature Network, Project Gutenberg (4 each), Munseys (3).
Shorter Poems: Oldpoetry (96 poems), Making of America Books (46), Bartleby (20).
Miscellaneous Prose: English Server (10 texts), Arthur's Classic Novels (8).

Complete List

Abacci Books

This directory of free e-etexts provides access to 24 works by Scott, linking generally to the Project Gutenberg site. It directly publishes the following works:

Poetry: The Lady of the Lake
Miscellaneous Prose: The Journal of Sir Walter Scott | Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

Alternative King Arthur

This web site 'concerned with alternative views of King Arthur and his knights' offers:

Poetry: The Bridal of Triermain (extract: 'Lyulph's Tale')

Ancient Paths

Skylar H. Burris's literary website offers:

Poetry: The Lay of the Last Minstrel (Canto III, Stanzas 1-2)

Angal Kavya Darpan

This site featuring samples from an anthology of English verse translated into Gujarati by Mohamed Rupani offers:

Poetry: Rosabelle (extract in Gujarati)

Arthur's Classic Novels

Largely using the Project Gutenberg texts, Arthur Wendover's collection of classic literature provides:

Novels: The Abbot | Anne of Geierstein | The Antiquary | The Betrothed | The Black Dwarf | The Bride of Lammermoor | The Fair Maid of Perth | The Fortunes of Nigel | Guy Mannering | The Heart of Midlothian | Ivanhoe | Kenilworth | A Legend of Montrose | Old Mortality | Peveril of the Peak | Quentin Durward | Redgauntlet | Rob Roy | St. Ronan's Well | The Talisman | Waverley | Woodstock
Short Fiction: Chronicles of the Canongate | The Keepsake Stories | 'My Aunt Margaret's Mirror' | 'The Surgeon's Daughter' | 'The Tapestried Chamber'
Poetry: The Lady of the Lake | Marmion
Miscellaneous Prose: The Journal of Sir Walter Scott | Letters of Malachi Malagrowther | Davy's Salmonia' | 'Life and Works of John Home' | 'Life of Kemble: Kelly's Reminiscences' | 'On Landscape Gardening' | 'On Planting Waste Lands' | 'Reliques of Robert Burns'
Works Edited by Scott: The Works of John Dryden (vol. II)

Auld Selkirk

This site devoted to Selkirk's history and literary associations offers:

Poetry: 'A weary lot is thine, fair maid'

Bartleby

Digital library offering:

Novels: Guy Mannering
Short Fiction: 'Wandering Willie's Tale'
Poetry: Marmion (excerpt from Introduction to Canto I) | Selection of shorter poems | Another selection | Another selection
Miscellaneous Prose: 'Sterne' (excerpt)

Bibliomania

Digital Library offering:

Novels: Ivanhoe | Rob Roy
Short Fiction: 'The Bridal of Janet Dalrymple' | 'The Tapestried Chamber'

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

In addition to links to the Project Gutenberg texts of The Black Dwarf, Chronicles of the Canongate, Kenilworth, A Legend of Montrose, The Talisman, Waverley, 'My Aunt Margaret's Mirror', and 'The Tapestried Chamber', and to the University of Virginia text of Ivanhoe, this digital library offers a Spanish-language version of:

Novels: Quentin Durward | Waverley (and vol. 2)

Bill Hammel's Home Page

Literary-flavoured home page offering:

Poetry: 'The Erl King'

Bookrags

This site providing e-texts and study-guides for literary classics offers:

Novels: The Abbot | The Antiquary | The Betrothed | The Black Dwarf | The Bride of Lammermoor | Castle Dangerous | Count Robert of Paris | The Fortunes of Nigel | Guy Mannering | The Heart of Mid-Lothian | Ivanhoe | Kenilworth | A Legend of Montrose | The Monastery | Old Mortality | Rob Roy | Waverley
Short Fiction: 'The Surgeon's Daughter'
Poetry: The Field of Waterloo | The Lady of the Lake | Marmion | The Vision of Don Roderick | Selection of Shorter Poems
Miscellaneous Prose: The Journal of Sir Walter Scott | Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
Works Edited by Scott: Dramatic Works of John Dryden, vol. I | Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (and vol. II) | Works of John Dryden, vol. II

Bookshare.org

This collection of digital books for people with visual or other print disabilities offers:

Novels: The Black Dwarf | The Bride of Lammermoor | Guy Mannering | Ivanhoe | Kenilworth | A Legend of Montrose | Redgauntlet | The Talisman | Waverley
Short Fiction: Chronicles of the Canongate | 'My Aunt Margaret's Mirror' | 'The Tapestried Chamber'
Poetry: The Lady of the Lake | Marmion

The Brontës: Texts, Sources, and Criticism

This site, edited by Peter Friesen at Plattsburgh State University, offers:

Poetry: The Lay of the Last Minstrel | Marmion

Camelot Project

This database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information, compiled at the University of Rochester, offers:

Poetry: The Bridal of Triermain

The Capital Scot

This site, 'presenting information of interest to Scots and Scots-at-heart living and working in the Washington, D.C. area', offers:

Poetry: The Lady of the Lake (extracts)

Ceska Citanka

This Czech-language poetry database presents the following in translation:

Poetry: The Lady of the Lake (extracts) | Selection of Shorter Poems

Changeling Legends from the British Isles

D. L. Ashliman's site offers:

Works edited by Scott: Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (two editorial notes).

Christmas Time

This compilation of material for use in Christmas entertainements offers:

Poetry: Marmion (Introduction to Canto VI, lines 1-84)

Clan Cameron Archive

This archive of historical and literary texts relating to the Clan Cameron offers extracts from:

Novels: A Legend of Montrose | Redgauntlet
Short Fiction: Chronicles of the Canongate
Poetry:The Field of Waterloo (Stanza 21) -- The Vision of Don Roderick (Canto III, Stanza 10) -- 'The Dance of Death' (Stanza 2)

ClassicAuthors.net

Digital library offering:

Novels: Ivanhoe
Poetry: Selection of shorter poems

Classic Bookshelf

Digital library offering:

Novels: Ivanhoe | The Talisman

ClassicReader.com

Digital library offering:

Novels: Ivanhoe | The Talisman
Short Fiction: 'Wandering Willie's Tale'

The Cyber Hymnal

This digital library of hymns and gospel songs from many denominations offers:

Poetry: 'Hymn for the Dead' -- 'Rebecca's Hymn'.

Electric Scotland

Using the Project Gutenberg and STELLA texts, this site devoted to all things Scottish offers:

Novels: The Antiquary | The Black Dwarf | The Bride of Lammermoor | Guy Mannering | The Heart of Midlothian | Ivanhoe | Kenilworth | A Legend of Montrose | Redgauntlet | Rob Roy | The Talisman | Waverley
Short Fiction: Chronicles of the Canongate | The Keepsake Stories

Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library

Using the Wiretap texts, this archive of humanities-related material offers:

Short Fiction: Chronicles of the Canongate | The Keepsake Stories
Miscellaneous Prose: Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

English Server

Principally using the STELLA texts, this directory based at Iowa University offers:

Novels: The Antiquary | The Black Dwarf | The Heart of Midlothian | Ivanhoe | A Legend of Montrose | Rob Roy | The Talisman | Waverley
Miscellaneous Prose: Letters of Malachi Malagrowther | 'Davy's Salmonia' | 'Essay on Chivalry' | 'Essay on The Drama' | 'Essay on Romance' | | 'Life and Works of John Home' | 'Life of Kemble: Kelly's Reminiscences' | 'On Landscape Gardening' | 'On Planting Waste Lands' | 'Reliques of Robert Burns'

Folk Music of Scotland

Part of a site devoted to the folk music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales & America, this page offers:

Poetry: 'Border March' -- 'Jock O'Hazeldean'.

Free Online Library

Along with a brief biographical introduction to Scott, this site offers:

Novels: Ivanhoe

Gaslight

This digital archive of classic mystery and adventure stories offers:

Short Fiction: 'The Tapestried Chamber' | 'Wandering Willie's Tale'

Humanities Web

Along with biographical information, a chronology, and suggestions for further reading, this site offers:

Novels: Guy Mannering | Ivanhoe | Waverley
Poetry: Selection of shorter poems
Miscellaneous Prose: Journal of Sir Walter Scott
Works Edited by Scott: Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border

Images of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce

This site offers:

Miscellaneous Prose: Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (Extract: 'The Fian Warriors') | Tales of a Grandfather ('The Recapture of Edinburgh Castle from the English in 1313')

Infomotions

This digital library of English and American literature and Western philosophy offers:

Novels: Ivanhoe
Short fiction: Chronicles of the Canongate | The Keepsake Stories

Joe Horn's Poetry Archive

This personal archive of classic poems offers:

Poetry: Selection of shorter poems

Jonathan Mitchell, Q.C.: Homepage

This information site on Advocates and other aspects of the Scottish legal system offers:

Novels: Redgauntlet

Kellscraft

This e-library of 'Arts and Crafts influenced publications from the turn-of-the-20th-century' offers:

Poetry: 'Hunting Song'.

Knowledgerush

Largely using the Project Gutenberg texts, this directory of e-literature offers:

Novels: The Abbot | The Antiquary | The Betrothed | The Black Dwarf | Castle Dangerous | Count Robert of Paris | The Fair Maid of Perth | The Fortunes of Nigel | Guy Mannering | The Heart of Midlothian | Ivanhoe | Kenilworth | A Legend of Montrose | The Monastery | Old Mortality | Peveril of the Peak | Quentin Durward | Rob Roy | Waverley | Woodstock
Short Fiction: Chronicles of the Canongate | The Keepsake Stories | 'Death of the Laird's Jock' | 'My Aunt Margaret's Mirror' | 'The Surgeon's Daughter' | 'The Tapestried Chamber'
Poetry: The Field of Waterloo | Marmion | The Vision of Don Roderick | Selection of Shorter Poems

The Land Family

This family history site offers:

Poetry: 'Lochinvar'

The Lied and Art Song Texts Page

This archive of texts to Lieder and other Classical art songs offers:

Poetry: Selection of shorter poems.

The Literary Gothic

Besides providing links to works by Scott with Gothic elements published by other providers, this site offers:

Fiction: 'The Fortunes of Martin Walbeck' (extracted from The Antiquary)
Poetry: 'The Wild Huntsman'
Prose: 'On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition'

Literature Network

Along with a brief biography of Scott, a critical introduction to the texts, and space for reader's comments, this digital library offers:

Novels: The Abbot | The Antiquary | The Betrothed | The Black Dwarf | The Bride of Lammermoor | The Fair Maid of Perth | The Fortunes of Nigel | Guy Mannering | The Heart of Midlothian | Ivanhoe | Kenilworth | A Legend of Montrose | The Monastery | Old Mortality | Peveril of the Peak | Rob Roy | The Talisman
Short Fiction: Chronicles of the Canongate | 'My Aunt Margaret's Mirror' | 'The Tapestried Chamber'
Poetry: The Field of Waterloo | The Lady of the Lake | Marmion | The Vision of Don Roderick | 'The Dance of Death' | ''Pibroch of Donald Dhu' | 'Romance of Dunois' | 'The Troubadour'
Miscellaneous Prose: The Journal of Sir Walter Scott | Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

A Little Archive of Poetry

Poetry library offering:

Poetry: A selection of shorter poems.

Making of America Books

Using mid-19th-century US editions, this digital library of American imprints from the Antebellum period through Reconstruction offers:

Novels: The Abbot | (another edition) | The Antiquary | The Betrothed | The Black Dwarf | Castle Dangerous | Count Robert of Paris | The Fair Maid of Perth | The Fortunes of Nigel | Guy Mannering | The Heart of Midlothian | The Monastery | (another edition) | Old Mortality | Peveril of the Peak | Redgauntlet | Rob Roy | The Talisman | Woodstock
Short Fiction: Chronicles of the Canongate | (Another version) | The Keepsake Stories
Poetry: The Lady of the Lake | (another version) | (another version) | The Lay of the Last Minstrel | (another version) | (another version) | The Lord of the Isles | Marmion | (another version) | (another version) | Rokeby | (another version) | The Vision of Don Roderick | (another version) | (another version) | Selection of Shorter Poems | (another selection) | (another selection)
Miscellaneous Prose: The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte | 'Gabions of Abbotsford'
Works edited by Scott: 'Private Letters of King James's Reign'

MasterTexts

This e-library of literary masterpieces offers:

Novels: The Black Dwarf | The Bride of Lammermoor | Waverley
Short Fiction: Chronicles of the Canongate | 'The Death of the Laird's Jock' | 'My Aunt Margaret's Mirror' | 'The Tapestried Chamber'

Munseys

E-library offering rare and hard-to-find titles in 10 fomats:

Novels: The Abbot | Anne of Geierstein | The Antiquary | The Betrothed | The Black Dwarf (English and French) | The Bride of Lammermoor | Castle Dangerous | Count Robert of Paris | The Fair Maid of Perth (Finnish) | The Fortunes of Nigel | Guy Mannering | The Heart of Mid-Lothian | Ivanhoe | Kenilworth | A Legend of Montrose (English and Finnish) | The Monastery | Old Mortality | Peveril of the Peak | Quentin Durward (English and French) | Redgauntlet | Rob Roy | Saint Ronan's Well | The Talisman | Waverley
Short Fiction: Chronicles of the Canongate | The Keepsake Stories | 'My Aunt Margaret's Mirror' | 'The Surgeon's Daughter' | 'Wandering Willie's Tale'
Poetry: The Field of Waterloo | The Lady of the Lake | The Vision of Don Roderick | Selection of shorter poems
Miscellaneous Prose: The Journal of Sir Walter Scott | Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
Works edited by Scott: The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, vol. I | Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, vol. I and vol. II

Música i literatura

Susagna Argemí's Catalan-language site on links between music and literature offers:

Poetry: 'Hymn to the Virgin' (German, English, and Catalan)

Napoleonic Literature

This site, which provides e-text of works of history, biography, and literature relating to Napoleon, offers:

Poetry: The Field of Waterloo (stanzas 11-12)

National Library of Scotland

Via its interactive timeline of Scotland's written history, this site offers:

Correspondence: Letters to John Wilson Croker, February 4 and 7, 1818 on the discovery of the Regalia of Scotland

National Portrait Gallery

This site offers an image of:

Correspondence: Letter from Walter Scott to William Brockedon, February 12, 1830

The North East England History Pages

David Simpson's local history site offers, together with many quoted extracts from Scott's work, the complete text of:

Poetry: 'To a Lady, with Flowers from the Roman Wall'

Oldpoetry

This 'interactive community exploring the old poets' offers:

Poetry: The Bridal of Triermain | The Field of Waterloo | The Lady of the Lake | The Lay of the Last Minstrel | The Lord of the Isles | Marmion | Rokeby | The Vision of Don Roderick | Selection of shorter poems

Oxford Text Archive

Using the Wiretap texts, this archive of humanities-related texts for research and teaching purposes, offers:

Novels: Ivanhoe
Short Fiction: Chronicles of the Canongate | The Keepsake Stories
Poetry: Selected Poems

Page by Page Books

Digital library offering:

Short Fiction: 'My Aunt Margaret's Mirror'

Passions in Poetry

Online poetry library offering:

Poetry: Selection of shorter poems.

Penn State Electronic Classics Series

This selection of e-texts, provided by Jim Manis of Pennsylvania State University, offers:

Novels: The Black Dwarf | The Bride of Lammermoor | Guy Mannering | Ivanhoe | Kenilworth | A Legend of Montrose | Redgauntlet | The Talisman | Waverley
Short Fiction: Chronicles of the Canongate | 'Death of the Laird's Jock' | 'My Aunt Margaret's Mirror' | 'The Tapestried Chamber'
Poetry: The Lady of the Lake | Marmion

Poet's Corner

Online poetry library offering:

Poetry: The Lay of the Last Minstrel | Selection of shorter poems

PoetryArchive

Online poetry library offering:

Poetry: Selection of shorter poems

Poetry Archives@eMule.com

Online poetry library offering:

Poetry: Selection of shorter poems

Project Gutenberg

The Internet's oldest and most established producer of free electronic texts provides:

Novels: The Abbot | The Antiquary | The Betrothed | The Black Dwarf (English and French) | The Bride of Lammermoor | Castle Dangerous | Count Robert of Paris | The Fair Maid of Perth (English and Finnish) | The Fortunes of Nigel | Guy Mannering | The Heart of Midlothian | Ivanhoe | Kenilworth | A Legend of Montrose (English and Finnish) | The Monastery | Old Mortality | Peveril of the Peak | Quentin Durward (English and Finnish) | Redgauntlet | Rob Roy (English and French) | The Talisman | Waverley | Woodstock
Short Fiction: Chronicles of the Canongate | 'Death of the Laird's Jock' | 'My Aunt Margaret's Mirror' | (Another version) | 'The Surgeon's Daughter' | 'The Tapestried Chamber' | (Another version) | 'Wandering Willie's Tale'
Poetry: The Field of Waterloo | The Lady of the Lake | Marmion | The Vision of Don Roderick | Selection of short poems
Miscellaneous Prose: The Journal of Sir Walter Scott | Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
Works edited by Scott: The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Vol. I -- The Memoirs of Count Grammont -- Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. I -- Vol. II -- The Works of John Dryden, Vol. II -- Vol. IV -- Vol. V -- Vol. VI -- Vol. VII -- Vol. XVI

Pseudopodium

Ray Davis's personal site offers:

Works edited by Scott: Memoirs of Count Grammont

Rampant Scotland

The site 'for everything about Scotland' offers:

Poetry: The Lord of the Isles (Extract: Robert the Bruce and Sir Henry de Bohun) | Selection of shorter poems | Another selection

realliteraturedir.com

This e-library of literary classics offers:

Novels: Ivanhoe | The Talisman

Reinhards Dreampage

This personal homepage on esoteric matters offers:

Miscellaneous Prose: Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

Renaissance

Judy Warren's poetry page offers:

Poetry: 'Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er'

Representative Poetry Online

This English poetry database edited by Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto, offers:

Poetry: The Lady of the Lake (extract: Fitz James and Roderick Dhu) | The Lay of the Last Minstrel (extract: The Ride to Melrose) | Marmion (Extract: Canto VI, stanzas 18-38) | Selection of shorter poems

The Republic of Pemberley

This 'haven for Jane Austen addicts' offers:

Miscellaneous Prose: Journal (Entry for March 14, 1826, on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice)

Romantic Anthologies Web Site

This site containing the tables of contents, and sometimes prefaces and indexes for anthologies from or about the Romantic period offers:

Correspondence: Letter to Sir Adam Ferguson, August 2, 1827, describing David Wilkie's painting of the 'Abbotsford Family'

Rosslyn Chapel

The official site for Rosslyn Chapel (Roslin, Midlothian) offers:

Poetry: 'Rosabelle'

Sacred Texts

This digital library of texts 'about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics' offers:

Miscellaneous Prose: Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
Correspondence: Letter to Thomas Crofton Croker, April 27, 1825
Works Edited by Scott: Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (11 editorial notes)

Selfknowledge

This directory of classic literature, 'with annotations advancing emotional literacy education from the Encylopedia of the Self', offers:

Novels: The Black Dwarf | The Bride of Lammermoor | Ivanhoe | A Legend of Montrose | The Talisman

Shroudeater

This site on 'European Vampire Research' offers:

Miscellaneous Prose: Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (Extract: 'Story of Assueit and Asmund')

A Small Anthology of Poems

This personal anthology compiled by Seamus Cooney of Western Michigan University offers:

Poetry: 'Lochinvar' -- 'Proud Maisie'

Sorbie Family Page

This family history site offers:

Poetry: 'Lochinvar'

Sparknotes

From Barnes & Noble, this site providing e-texts with accompanying study-notes, offers:

Novels: Ivanhoe

Spinning the Web with Margaret

Besides a brief essay analysing Scott's contribution to the novel and synopses of Ivanhoe and Rob Roy, this site offers:

Poetry: Selection of shorter poems

STELLA

This University of Glasgow teaching resource provides the following e-texts, prepared by Anders Thulin from the Centenary Edition of the Waverley Novels (Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1870-71):