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Short breaks: In search of... Sir Walter Scott in the Borders Forget Tony Blair's love of `Ivanhoe', here's an author and his homeland well worth exploring, says Juliet Clough

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20030817
Author:Juliet Clough

Waverley and The Lady of the Lake? Have mercy!

Come, come! While his phenomenal literary output may not top many must- read lists today, Scott is a figure well worth getting to know. With 22 novels, six poetical marathons and 11 more prose works under his belt, the most celebrated Scotsman of his day was the first author ever to be a best seller in all three genres. What other writer, dead for 170 years, still has fishing boats and a football team named in his honour?

I still don't feel like reading him

Never mind. We'll pass over the fact that Tony Blair has declared Ivanhoe to be one of ...

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