This eBook edition of «The Antiquary» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Jonathan Oldbuck is an amateur historian, archaeologist and collector of items of dubious antiquity. While taking a coach from Edinburgh, he meets young Mr. William Lovel, who is interested as he is in antiquities. When Oldbuck introduces Lovel to his neighbor Sir Arthur Wardour and his family, Lovel falls in love with Sir Arthur's daughter Isabella....
The Betrothed is the first of two Tales of the Crusaders. The action takes place in the Welsh Marches during the latter part of the reign of Henry II, after 1187. Eveline, the 16-year-old daughter of Sir Raymond Berenger, is rescued from a Welsh siege by the forces of Damian Lacy. She is betrothed to his uncle, Sir Hugo, who leaves on a crusade. Rebels led by Ranald Lacy attempt to kidnap her, and Damian fights them off, but a confused sequence of events convinces the King that she and her...
This eBook edition of «The Black Dwarf» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. As Hobbie Elliot and Patrick Earnscliff went across the Liddesdale hills of the Scottish Borders, going to Hobbies home, the moon suddenly revealed the figure of a human dwarf, who, on being spoken to, refused their offers of assistance. Next morning Hobbie and Earnscliff went to confront the strange being by daylight; and having helped him in collecting...
This eBook edition of «The Bride of Lammermoor» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Bride of Lammermoor is set in the Lammermuir Hills of south-east Scotland, and tells of a tragic love affair between young Lucy Ashton and her family's enemy Edgar Ravenswood. Edgar's father was stripped of the title for supporting the deposed King James VII. Lucy's ambitious father, Sir William Ashton, then bought the Ravenswood...
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of «The Complete Autobiographical Writings of Sir Walter Scott». This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. He was the first modern English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North...
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Introduction: SIR WALTER SCOTT AND LADY MORGAN by Victor Hugo MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS by Robert Louis Stevenson SCOTT AND HIS PUBLISHERS by Charles Dickens POETRY: Notable Poems MARMION THE LADY OF THE LAKE THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL ROKEBY THE VISION OF DON RODERICK THE BRIDAL OF TRIERMAIN THE FIELD OF WATERLOO THE LORD OF THE...
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: Introduction: SIR WALTER SCOTT AND LADY MORGAN by Victor Hugo MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS by Robert Louis Stevenson SCOTT AND HIS PUBLISHERS by Charles Dickens POETRY: Notable Poems MARMION THE LADY OF THE LAKE THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL ROKEBY THE VISION OF DON RODERICK THE BRIDAL OF TRIERMAIN THE FIELD OF WATERLOO THE...
This carefully edited collection of «THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF SIR WALTER SCOTT» has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. He was the first modern English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America. His novels and poetry are still read, and...
"Tales of my Landlord" is a series of novels by Sir Walter Scott that form a subset of the Waverley Novels. Of these novels, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor have been the most successful and Old Mortality is considered by modern critics to be among Scott's best work. They were so called, because they were supposed to be tales collected from the fictional landlord of the Wallace Inn at Gandercleugh. This is gone into in great depth in the introduction to The Black...
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of «The Complete Tales of Sir Walter Scott». This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. He was the first modern English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America. His novels...