The ‘English Novel’ course (Timothy Spurgin) caused me to read ‘Waverly’ by Sir Walter Scott, the inventor of the historical novel. This is the first of about 50 books he wrote. One other one that is famous is ‘Ivanhoe.’ They all take place in the Scottish highlands in the 1700s. This book was published in 1814. It is quite readable. It kind of gives new meaning to the Bob Dylan song ‘My heart’s in the highlands’ though I don’t know exactly what he is referring to in that song. I love these public domain books considering it was 99 c on Google Play books. 

The Rising has been a popular topic for writers such as D. K. Broster and Sir Walter Scott, whose 1814 novel Waverley presented it as part of a shared Unionist history.^] The hero of Waverley is an Englishman who fights for the Stuarts, rescues a Hanoverian Colonel and finally rejects a romantic Highland beauty for the daughter of a Lowland aristocrat. Scott’s reconciliation of Unionism and the ’45 allowed Cumberland’s nephew George IV to be painted less than 70 years later wearing Highland dress and tartans, previously symbols of Jacobite rebellion. – Wikipedia