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Novels set in the 1760s

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The Master of Ballantrae

1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson

novel by Walter Scott

A Place Called Freedom

historical novel by Ken Follett

The Family of the Vourdalak

novella by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

Redgauntlet is an 1824 historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels, set primarily in Dumfriesshire, southwest Scotland, in 1765, and described by Magnus Magnusson (a point first made by Andrew Lang) as "in a sense, the most autobiographical of Scott's novels." It describes a plot to start a fictional third Jacobite Rebellion, and includes "Wandering Willie's Tale", a famous short story which frequently appears in anthologies.

The Visit of the Royal Physician

1999 novel by Per Olov Enquist

Drums of Autumn

1996 novel by Diana Gabaldon