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He was a native, it is said, of the parish of closeburn, in dumfriesshire, and probably a mason by professionat least educated to the use of the chisel. Project gutenberg offers 60,159 free ebooks to download. It forms, along with the black dwarf, the 1st series of scott s tales of my landlord. Old mortality is a novel by sir walter scott set in the period 167989 in south west scotland. Titlepage dedication first series editors introduction to old mortality. Old mortality, complete walter scott read online free. Old mortality by walter scott set in 1679 during the scottish populist rebellion known as the covenanter uprising, the tale of old mortality is one of the outstanding historical fictions of the nineteenth century. The author of ivanhoe contributed other books to the hallowed halls of literature and one of the classics of his writing is old mortality. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project.
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