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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Scott, Sir Walter

Scott, Sir Walter
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critical Commentary

The problem in Scott criticism is to explain the decline of the fame and
critical reputation of the Waverley Novels since the highwater mark during the
nineteenth century. Once Scott was regarded as the greatest English
novelist-above Fielding, Jane Austen, Dickens, and George Eliot. Despite the
high price of his books Scott's career as a best-selling novelist was
phenomenal, and the tide of his popularity continued for two generations after
his death. But today his books are considered children's reading and molder
away on shelves ...

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