Роб Рой

The novel was published in 1817. Its action takes place in the second half of the 17th - early 18th centuries. That was the era of the death of the old patriarchal Scotland and the emergence of a new bourgeois system. Walter Scott shows how, by driving the peasants off the land, the English and Scottish bourgeoisie asserted their dominance. Often, popular uprisings were used by the nobility and large feudal lords for their own purposes. The uprising of the highlanders in 1715, described in "Rob Roy", was led by the "Jacobites" - supporters of the restoration of the Stuart dynasty on the throne, which defended the interests of the feudal lords.
The novel is given in the form of autobiographical notes. A certain Frank Osbaldiston, in his declining years, recalls the romantic adventures of his youth.