Count Robert of Paris ([New ed.])

This is Scott's last novel, newly edited. "Count Robert of Paris", condemned by Scott's printer as 'altogether a failure', was later prepared for publication by his son-in-law, J.

G. Lockhart, and his publisher Robert Cadell. What appeared was a bowdlerised, tamed and tidied version of what Scott had written and dictated.

This edition, the first to have returned to the manuscript and to the many surviving proofs, realises Scott's original intentions.

Scott's last full novel has many roughnesses, but it also challenges the susceptibilities of his readers more directly than any other and in that lay its fault in the eyes of the lesser men who condemned it.

The first of Scott's Waverley novels burst upon an astonished world in 1814.

Its publication marked the emergence of the modern novel in the western world, influencing all the great nineteenth-century writers.

This handsome new edition of Sir Walter Scott's novels captures the original power and freshness of his best-loved novels.

Going back to the original manuscripts, a team of scholars has uncovered what Scott originally wrote and intended his public to read before errors, misreadings and expurgations crept in during production.