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Historical novel. Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Edward Waverley, a young English gentleman joins the army just before the Jocobite uprising of 1745.er. On leave from army training, he visits friends of his family in Scotland, and finds himself in the midst of loyalists who support the return of the House of Stuart and the Stuart prince, known as Bonnie Prince Charlie. His honour is often challenged as others interfere to push him to the Stuart side, where he is in battle, and he meets two women with whom he falls in love in turn, until he chooses one. His gentlemanly actions gain him friends in this precarious situation, on both sides of the uprising, who stand him in good stead when he is at risk from his own government when the uprising is put down. This book has a text "Advertisement" in the front, then a General Preface, then an Appendix to General Preface, then an Infroduction to Waverley, then Preface to the Third Edition, then Chapter 1 of Waverly, at the end there is Notes to WaverlyFair…
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Philadelphia: Porter & Coates. Hardcover. Very Good-Near Fine/No Jacket. Type: Book Beautiful Brown covers, black ornate decorations, and gilt title. 389 pages. No publication date stated. Clean and tight pages with no markings in the book.
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