Scotland's image-maker Sir Walter Scott 'invented English legends'
Author claims unfashionable novelist first wrote some of the famous exploits of Robin Hood and Sir Walter Raleigh
The novels of Sir Walter Scott are now – in England, at least – almost unread. It is hard to imagine an author simultaneously so famous and so unfashionable, his novels frequently written off as prolix and unbearably dense.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 16 August, 2010
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