Guy Mannering (Annotated)

Walter Scott's Guy Mannering (1815), the second of the Waverley novels, is a richly textured tale of dispossession, mistaken identity, prophecy, and legal inheritance set amid the rugged landscapes of Galloway and the Border country. Combining romance, antiquarian detail, social comedy, and Gothic suspense, the novel moves between the fortunes of the kidnapped heir Harry Bertram and the memorable ...