1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

  • Gulliver's Travels
  • Roxana
  • Moll Flanders
  • Love In Excess
  • Robinson Crusoe
  • A Tale of a Tub
  • Oroonoko
  • The Princess of Cleves

Monday, April 9, 2012

66. Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott

I read Rob Roy while on holiday in Bali, about as far as you can get from the Scottish highlands. I've never read any of Scott's historical novels. Rob. Roy's story is told almost as a side story to the main plot by young Francis Osbaldistone who visits his country cousins and falls in love with Di Vernon.

Fascinating for the insight into Scottish history and characters, and very readable (once you decipher the dialect)

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