Sir Walter Scott: 251 books

Walter Scott's novel The Black Dwarf was part of his Tales of My Landlord, 1st series, published along with Old Mortality on 2 December 1816 by William Blackwood, Edinburgh, and John Murray, London. It was originally to be one of four volumes with separate stories in the series, but Old Mortality...

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border is a collection of Border ballads compiled by Walter Scott, first published in three volumes in 1802 and 1803. It is not to be confused with his long poem, The Lay of the Last Minstrel.

Rokeby (1813) is a narrative poem in six cantos by Walter Scott. It is set in Teesdale during the English Civil War. At Oswald's instigation Bertram makes an attempt on the life of Philip, which he mistakenly thinks has succeeded, and an attack on Rokeby Castle, in which the castle is set...

Count Robert of Paris (1832) was the second-last novel by Walter Scott. Set in Constantinople at the time of the First Crusade, Count Robert of Paris portrays the impact of Western medieval values and attitudes on the sophisticated Romano-Greek classical society of the Byzantine Empire. The...

Tales from Benedictine Sources (1820) is a pair of novels by Walter Scott consisting of The Abbot and The Monastery.The novels have only slight connections with one another, for example, both feature the Avenel family, and have monastic themes and titles. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Sur une lande désolée, le château dangereux se dresse, verrou stratégique ou s'affrontent anglais et écossais. Un ménestrel et un pelerin se dirigent vers ce château «hanté». Emprisonnements, combats, évasions, grimoires, fantômes, chevaliers sortis du brouillard, le Moyen-âge flamboyant selon le grand art de Walter Scott.

Sans Walter Scott, et l'immense influence qu'il a exercée, Balzac, Stendhal, Hugo, Dumas n'auraient pas été les mêmes. Il a su transformer l'histoire passée, mais aussi l'époque moderne, en drame poignant.(1818) La prison d'Edimbourg, raconte l'histoire, qui commence en 1736, de gens simples,...

Sous la plume de Walter Scott, nous parcourons l'Angleterre des années 1575, sous le règne d'Élisabeth et nous côtoyons nombres de ses courtisans, par le biais de l'histoire romanesque d'une jeune fille qui quitte la maison paternelle pour faire un mariage secret avec le brillant comte de Leicester....

Woodstock, or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one (1826) is a historical novel by Walter Scott. Set just after the English Civil War, it was inspired by the legend of the Good Devil of Woodstock, which in 1649 supposedly tormented parliamentary commissioners who had taken...

Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love 3. Walt Whitman - A Glimpse 4. W.Shakespeare - Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds 5. John Donne - The Good-Morrow 6. K.Gibran - Love One Another 7. Robert Browning - Meeting At Night 8. E.Dickinson...

The longest of Scott’s novels, this story revolves around Sir Geoffrey Peveril, an old Cavalier, and Major Bridgenorth, a zealous Puritan who are neighboring landowners in Derbyshire during the frenzy of the alleged Popish Plot to depose Charles II in 1678. Their grown children, Julian and Alice, are...

"Ivanhoe" is set at the time of the Norman Conquest when Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades to claim his inheritance and the love of Rowena and becomes involved in the struggle between Richard Coeur de Lion and his Norman brother John. The gripping narrative is structured by a series of conflicts:...

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La sposa di Lammermoor racconta del tragico amore tra Edgar, padrone di Ravenswood, e Lucy Ashton, figlia di Sir William Ashton, nemico di Ravenswood. La moglie di Sir William è la malvagia della storia, che ordisce l'intero intrigo. Lady Ashton è altera e manipolatrice nel suo scopo di annullare...