Tales of my Landlord is a series of novels by Sir

Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels '' Ivanhoe'', '' Rob Roy ...

(1771–1832) that form a subset of the so-called

Waverley Novels The Waverley Novels are a long series of novels by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). For nearly a century, they were among the most popular and widely read novels in Europe. Because Scott did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, the se ...

. There are four series: Of these, ''The Heart of Midlothian'' and ''The Bride of Lammermoor'' have been the most successful, and ''Old Mortality'' is considered by modern critics to be among Scott's best work. The fourth were the least successful. They were so called because they were supposed to be tales collected from the (fictional) landlord of the Wallace Inn at Gandercleugh, compiled by a "Peter Pattieson", and edited and sent to the publisher by

Jedediah Cleishbotham Jedediah Cleishbotham is an imaginary editor in Walter Scott's ''Tales of My Landlord.'' According to Scott, he is a "Schoolmaster and Parish-clerk of Gandercleugh." Scott claimed that he had sold the stories to the publishers, and that they had be ...

. This is gone into in great depth in the introduction to ''The Black Dwarf''. The first series was planned to comprise four volumes, each containing a separate novel, but Scott – by his own admission – botched ''The Black Dwarf'', and ''Old Mortality'' came to be three volumes in its own right

The other three series thus consisted of two volumes each, or just one, in the case of the second. They were supposed to reflect aspects of Scottish regional life.

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