The Monastery

Complete and unabridged, with 42 full-page plates by Nicholas Hilliard, Robert Peake the elder and J. M. W. Turner. The Scottish borders at the Reformation, a monastery whose lands are about to be taken, and a spirit attached to a family that appears when the water is low. Scott put a supernatural figure at the center, as he almost never did elsewhere, and it divided readers then as it does now. T...