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The Monastery
1820 novel by Walter Scott / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the novel by Walter Scott. For TV series, see The Monastery (TV series). For the film, see The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun.
The Monastery: a Romance (1820) is a historical novel by Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Set in the Scottish Borders in the 1550s on the eve of the Reformation, it is centred on Melrose Abbey.
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Author | Walter Scott |
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Language | English, Lowland Scots |
Series | Waverley novels |
Genre | Historical novel |
Publisher | Archibald Constable, and John Ballantyne (Edinburgh); Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown (London) |
Publication date | 23 March 1820[1] |
Publication place | Scotland |
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Pages | 354 (Edinburgh Edition, 2000) |
Preceded by | Ivanhoe |
Followed by | The Abbot |
Text | The Monastery at Wikisource |
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