Works

Follow the links below for synopses of Scott's major works, together with bibliographical information on first editions, a brief history of their composition, and details of reception by public and critics. These pages cover all of Scott's novels and narrative poems and a selection of his prose works. They are illustrated by prints from the Corson Collection, complete reproductions of which may be found in the Image Database. (To discover the title, artist, and date for each print, place the cursor over the image.) Consult the Bibliography page for a list of the primary biographical, bibliographical, and critical sources used in the preparation of these pages.

We are pleased to announce a new addition to these pages: an online 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 an annotated text of the Apology, 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).

For a list of external webpages devoted to particular works by Scott, click here. For a list of e-texts of Scott's works (from external providers), click here.

Poetry | Fiction | Miscellaneous Prose

Poetry

An Apology for Tales of Terror (1799)
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802-3)
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
Marmion (1808)
The Lady of the Lake (1810)
The Vision of Don Roderick (1811)
Rokeby (1813)
The Bridal of Triermain (1813)
The Lord of the Isles (1815)
The Field of Waterloo (1815)
Harold the Dauntless (1817)

Fiction

Waverley (1814)
Guy Mannering (1815)
The Antiquary (1816)
The Black Dwarf (Tales of My Landlord, First Series) (1816)
The Tale of Old Mortality (Tales of My Landlord, First Series) (1816)
Rob Roy (1817)
The Heart of Midlothian (Tales of My Landlord, Second Series) (1818)
The Bride of Lammermoor (Tales of My Landlord, Third Series) (1819)
A Legend of Montrose (Tales of My Landlord, Third Series) (1819)
Ivanhoe (1819)
The Monastery (1820)
The Abbot (1820)
Kenilworth (1821)
The Pirate (1821)
The Fortunes of Nigel (1822)
Peveril of the Peak (1823)
Quentin Durward (1823)
Saint Ronan's Well (1823)
Redgauntlet (1824)
The Betrothed (Tales of the Crusaders) (1825)
The Talisman (Tales of the Crusaders) (1825)
Woodstock (1826)
Chronicles of the Canongate, First Series (1827)
The Fair Maid of Perth (Chronicles of the Canongate, Second Series) (1828)
Anne of Geierstein (1829)
Count Robert of Paris (Tales of My Landlord, Fourth Series) (1831)
Castle Dangerous (Tales of My Landlord, Fourth Series) (1831)

Miscellaneous Prose

Paul's Letters to His Kinsfolk (1816)
Letters of Malachi Malagrowther (1826)
The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte (1827-8)
Tales of a Grandfather (1828-31)
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (1830)