Collins Classics: Rob Roy

‘Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.’
Set before the Jacobite Rising in 1715, Scott drew upon the political and economic struggles leading up to the rising in his fictional work that draws upon the tumultuous history of the Highlands. Frank Osbaldistone travels through England and the Scottish Highlands to collect a debt owed to his father by his cousin Rashleigh and on his journey he comes across the mysterious and striking Rob Roy, the infamous and hunted outlaw.