Peveril of the Peak by Sir Walter Scott, Fiction, Historical, Literary, Classics

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Here is a plot without a drop of blood, and all the elements of a romance, without its conclusion, " says King Charles II near the end of "Peveril of the Peak, " As well he might! The book's about a popih plot to do him in, and pits puritan against catholic in a nation that'd just passed thruogh the worst of its reformation. "Peveril of the Peak" was written in 1822 -- that is, in Scott's middle period, a time when he wrote books by reconstructing history, as he'd first done in "Ivanhoe,