Sir Walter Scott: 251 books

L’histoire se déroule dans les îles Shetland au début du XVIIIe siècle. Magnus Troil, vieil homme respectable, y vit paisiblement avec ses deux filles, Minna et Brenda. Il a loué à Basil Mertoun et à son fils Mordaunt, un château retiré du village. Mordaunt côtoie depuis son adolescence...

Ivanhoe follows Wilfred of Ivanhoe, part of one of the few Saxon families at a time when English nobility was dominated by the Normans, who is out of favour with his father for his allegiance to the Norman king, Richard the Lionheart. The gripping storyline beautifully captures the 12th century tensions...

This is a deep and profound work that reflects on the racist attitude of the British. Unraveling in the era after the Jacobite Defeat, the works are set in different backgrounds. From Colonial India to Scotland, the work focuses on the early years of British Imperialism.

Este ebook presenta "La Cámara de los Tapices", con un indice dinámico y detallado. Walter Scott (1771-1832) es una de las mayores figuras del romanticismo inglés de todos los tiempos y es considerado pionero de la literatura histórica europea. La Cámara de los Tapices es un relato de terror,...

Este ebook presenta "La Cámara de los Tapices ", con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Walter Scott (1771-1832) es una de las mayores figuras del romanticismo inglés de todos los tiempos y es considerado pionero de la literatura histórica europea. La Cámara de los Tapices es un relato de...

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For two years it had been notorious in the square that Sam'l Dickie was thinking of courting T'nowhead's Bell, and that if Little Sanders Elshioner (which is the Thrums pronunciation of Alexander Alexander) went in for her, he might prove a formidable rival. Sam'l was a weaver in the tenements, and Sanders...

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But why should lordlings all our praise engross? Rise, honest man, and sing the Man of Ross.

The Jacobite enthusiasm of the eighteenth century, particularly during the rebellion of 1745, afforded a theme, perhaps the finest that could be selected for fictitious composition, founded upon real or probable incident. This civil war and its remarkable events were remembered by the existing generation...

This is another little story from The Keepsake of 1828. It was told to me many years ago by the late Miss Anna Seward, who, among other accomplishments that rendered her an amusing inmate in a country house, had that of recounting narratives of this sort with very considerable effect— much greater,...

The Jacobite enthusiasm of the eighteenth century, particularly during the rebellion of 1745, afforded a theme, perhaps the finest that could be selected for fictitious composition, founded upon real or probable incident. This civil war and its remarkable events were remembered by the existing generation...