Sir Walter: 276 books

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...

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved...

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This novel was written at a time when circumstances did not place within my reach the stores of a library tolerably rich in historical works, and especially the memoirs of the Middle Ages, amidst which I had been accustomed to pursue the composition of my fictitious narratives. In other words, it was...

Lady De Lancey's narrative: being an account of how she nursed her husband, Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey, quartermaster-general of the army, mortally wounded in the great battle.

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...

The story is set just after the Union of Scotland and England (1707), in the Liddesdale hills of the Scottish Borders, familiar to Scott from his work collecting ballads for The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. The main character is based on David Ritchie, whom Scott met in the autumn of 1797. In...

Fin du XIVe siecle, sous le regne de Robert III. Le fils du roi, le duc de Rothesay, tente d'enlever Catherine Glover, la «jolie fille de Perth», fille d'un honnete bourgeois de Perth. L'intervention d'Heny Smith, ou Gow, un armurier tres habile a l'épée, l'en empeche. Il blesse ainsi a la main...

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The plot centres on the medieval rivalry between Louis XI of France and Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. Louis incites the citizens of Liège to revolt against Charles, and, under the command of Louis's ally, William de la Marck, they seize and murder Charles's brother-in-law, Louis de Bourbon,...

With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) Ivanhoe is the story of one of the remaining Saxon noble families at a time when the English nobility was overwhelmingly Norman. It follows the Saxon protagonist, Wilfrid of Ivanhoe,...