Sir Walter Scott’s last novel will be published. The novel, Reliquiae Trotcosienses: The Gabions of the Late Jonathan Oldbuck Esq of Monkbarns, is an unfinished 100-page manuscript that he was working on shortly before his death. The book hadn’t published up until now because nobody could spell or remember the title correctly.
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A piece of literary vitriol from a writers’ spat nearly two centuries old graced the walls of the National Library…