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Here is the granddaddy of popular historical fiction as a genre, Sir Walter Scott's 1815 novel that takes place sixty years earlier in Scotland. At that time 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' rose up to contest the Hanoverian succession to the English throne by George I, as a loyalist to his father James and his Stuart lineage. Scott inserts his own fictional hero into this drama: Edward Waverley, an English soldier with conflicting family loyalties who gets caught up in the turmoil. As the protagonist Ed
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