TY - BOOK AU - Scott,Walter TI - The Abbot AV - PR PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Historical fiction KW - Biographical fiction KW - Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 -- Fiction KW - Scotland -- History -- Mary Stuart, 1542-1567 -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abbot; Release date is 2004-09-01; Text file produced by Alan Millar, David Moynihan, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team Illustrated HTML file produced by David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Abbot" by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in 1820. A sequel to "The Monastery," it dramatizes the imprisonment and daring escape of Mary, Queen of Scots from Lochleven Castle in 1567-1568. The story follows young Roland Graeme, a spirited page caught between political loyalties and romantic desire, as he becomes entangled in the queen's fate. Religious conflict, secret identities, and courtly intrigue converge as Mary's supporters plot her liberation, leading toward her climactic defeat at Langside and final departure from Scotland. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6407 ER -