Author: Sir Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 716
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The fortunes of Nigel. Quentin Durward. St. Ronan's well
Author: Sir Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Quentin Durward
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher: CUP Archive
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Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Publisher: CUP Archive
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Languages : en
Pages : 618
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St. Ronan's Well
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849645339
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
The last of the "Waverley Novels" in point of time reaches a period only a few years prior to its day of writing. It is also "upon a plan different from any other that the author had ever written''—that of depicting contemporary social life. The chief thread of the plot, relating to the victimizing of an unfortunate young woman, is somewhat involved (and perhaps weakened by the author's subsequent change in his original MS.) and can be explained more clearly at the outset than by following the development of the story. Clara Mowbray, the only daughter of a wealthy landowner in southern Scotland, is at sixteen the romantic comrade of an older and more unprincipled cousin, Hannah Irwin. Together they roam the countryside and read exotic works of fiction. In the course of these jaunts Clara meets a handsome young stranger, Francis Tyrrel, whose birth is under a cloud. They declare a mutual passion which is fostered by Hannah. Francis's half-brother, Valentine Bulmer, the ostensible heir of their father, the Earl of Etherington, acts as go-between for the young people and arranges a secret marriage at night; but at the ceremony Bulmer substitutes himself as the bridegroom ...
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849645339
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
The last of the "Waverley Novels" in point of time reaches a period only a few years prior to its day of writing. It is also "upon a plan different from any other that the author had ever written''—that of depicting contemporary social life. The chief thread of the plot, relating to the victimizing of an unfortunate young woman, is somewhat involved (and perhaps weakened by the author's subsequent change in his original MS.) and can be explained more clearly at the outset than by following the development of the story. Clara Mowbray, the only daughter of a wealthy landowner in southern Scotland, is at sixteen the romantic comrade of an older and more unprincipled cousin, Hannah Irwin. Together they roam the countryside and read exotic works of fiction. In the course of these jaunts Clara meets a handsome young stranger, Francis Tyrrel, whose birth is under a cloud. They declare a mutual passion which is fostered by Hannah. Francis's half-brother, Valentine Bulmer, the ostensible heir of their father, the Earl of Etherington, acts as go-between for the young people and arranges a secret marriage at night; but at the ceremony Bulmer substitutes himself as the bridegroom ...
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Catalogue of the Public Library of the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky, 1880
Author: Polytechnic Society of Kentucky, Louisville. Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Languages : en
Pages : 184
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The Encyclopædia Britannica
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1810
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1810
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Catalogue of the Various Editions Now Completed of the Novels, Poetry, Prose Writings, & Life, of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
Author: Robert Cadell
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Guy Mannering
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849645185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 751
Book Description
The second novel written by Scott turned aside from the path of history, so successfully followed in "Waverley," and dealt no less happily with private scenes and characters. Some of the most enduring and popular types in the author's entire gallery are to be found in "Guy Mannering." Godfrey Bertram, the easy-going laird of the Ellengowan estate, whose hearth-stone is open to vagrant and gentleman alike, shelters a young Englishman of good family during a night when an heir is born to Ellangowari. The vistor, Guy Mannering, knows the rudiments of the discredited science of astrology, and—partly out of curiosity, partly to gratify the father's whim—casts the horoscope of the infant. The prediction shows three periods of baleful influence upon the child, beginning at five years and ending at twenty-one—the last period strangely coinciding with a storm-centre prophesied for Mannering's promised wife. Disturbed by these coincidences, Mannering absolves astrology henceforth, and in order to avoid the possibility of influencing his host's son, he writes and seals the prediction, with instructions that it be left unopened until after the child's fifth birthday. The next day he departs, and soon after enters military service in India, where he attains the rank of Colonel...
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849645185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 751
Book Description
The second novel written by Scott turned aside from the path of history, so successfully followed in "Waverley," and dealt no less happily with private scenes and characters. Some of the most enduring and popular types in the author's entire gallery are to be found in "Guy Mannering." Godfrey Bertram, the easy-going laird of the Ellengowan estate, whose hearth-stone is open to vagrant and gentleman alike, shelters a young Englishman of good family during a night when an heir is born to Ellangowari. The vistor, Guy Mannering, knows the rudiments of the discredited science of astrology, and—partly out of curiosity, partly to gratify the father's whim—casts the horoscope of the infant. The prediction shows three periods of baleful influence upon the child, beginning at five years and ending at twenty-one—the last period strangely coinciding with a storm-centre prophesied for Mannering's promised wife. Disturbed by these coincidences, Mannering absolves astrology henceforth, and in order to avoid the possibility of influencing his host's son, he writes and seals the prediction, with instructions that it be left unopened until after the child's fifth birthday. The next day he departs, and soon after enters military service in India, where he attains the rank of Colonel...
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Thomas Spencer Baynes
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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The American Catalogue
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.