Set in the Scottish Borders in the early eighteenth century, Sir Walter Scott's The Black Dwarf tells the story of Sir Edward Mauley, a disfigured dwarf who, scorned by society and betrayed in love, becomes a mysterious hermit dwelling in a lonely cave. When young farmer Hobbie Elliot seeks his aid to recover stolen cattle and reclaim his sweetheart Grace, the reclusive dwarf becomes entangled in the feuds of border lairds and the Jacobite rising of 1715. As long-buried secrets unfold—including the fate of his beloved Isabel Vere—Mauley must confront his painful past and choose between vengeance and forgiveness.
