Old Mortality (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Published in 1816 and set in seventeenth-century Scotland, this historical novel is part of the series Tales of My Landlord.  Henry Morton joins the rebellious Covenanters, fighting for the reestablishment of Presbyterianism in Scotland during the reign of the Stuarts.  Morton''s loyalties are torn, however, as he is in love with Edith Bellenden, whose family opposes the rebels.