Rob Roy (Walter Scott)

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Rob Roy is the sixth of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott . He wrote the book in the spring of 1817 and visited Loch Lomond and the Cathedral in Glasgow for research. The book was published anonymously at Christmas 1817, like all novels in the Waverley series. It appeared in three volumes. The demand was enormous, a whole shipload of copies was shipped from Leith to London .

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The novel takes place at the time of the first Jacobite rebellion The Fifteen . It is about Frank Osbaldistone, the son of an English merchant. The action takes place mainly in Northumberland until the middle of the book , then Osbaldistone sets off for the Scottish Highlands . The Scottish folk hero Rob Roy , after whom the book is named, appears several times in the novel, but is not the main character.