Walter Scott - the ancestor of the historical novel in England, a classic of world literature The ninth volume presents the novel “Monastery”, which, like the novel “Abbot”, is part of the series “Tales from Benedictine Sources” .. In this novel, in the only one of Walter Scott's novels, the supernatural is one of the main characters of the work. White Lady Evenelov a ghost whom the writer revived and introduced into the network of narrative In addition to the ghost, the main characters are two brothers, one of whom is a monk, the other is an assistant regent, and Lady Evenel, who, along with her mother, was expelled from the castle as a child.