Walter Scott is a classic of world literature, the ancestor of the historical novel in England. The fourth volume of the works includes two historical novels in the series "The Tales of the Innkeeper", describing the recent, for the author, history of his beloved Scotland - "Black Dwarf" and "Puritane" .. The Black Dwarf describes the events of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1707. One of the main characters of this novel, the sinister dwarf Elsie saves the beauty and gives her happily married. In The Puritans, the author recounts the famous uprising of 1679 in Scotland. In his novel, Walter Scott describes the real heroes of those events and gives a vivid description of the people's life of that time, but does not forget about the romantic component.