What's his best novel?For me it's a tie between the Antiquary and Old Mortality.
>>24823856I tried reading him. Got to page 100 of one of them. I think the world he wrote about is so different that his works just aren’t as compelling anymore. A lot of even great artworks do lose meaning when detached from a social and world context, and his are probably of that kind, so I expect his fall in international popularity from the 20th century is not arbitrary. One should think more about why some novels are effected and others are not
>>24823856I read Ivanhoe years ago and loved it. Once I'm done my current read, I'm going to do a big dive into old adventure novels including a lot of Scott.
>>24823868Speaking as a Scot, even here most people are kind of indifferent to Walter Scott’s works nowadays. We don’t even read him in school. He’s more famous for the fact he has a monument in Edinburgh and a train station named after Waverley rather than anything else. His influence shouldn’t be understated though, since he was a pioneer of Romanticism. Without him, there’d be no Victor Hugo or Gustave Flaubert.
>>24824094If I remember correctly, a bunch of streets in Vancouver, Canada are named after characters and places from Scott novels. Apparently the town planner was a huge fan, which I think is cool.
