In the distance, the ominous rumblings of thunder can be heard while a dark drizzle begins to fall on a dreary summer afternoon that makes no sunny pretenses ab

When Francis Osbaldistone is banished to Scotland by his father, he discovers a political situation as turbulent and wild as the land itself, and he is drawn to

This volume contains Walter Scott's historical novel, "Rob Roy" (first published in 1817). Frank Osbaldistone, the narrator, is the son of an English merchant w