Sir Walter: 276 books

Creative Ministry Moves reveals the secrets of providing creative ministry in this transitional age of ministry that will ignite thought, participation, growth and congregational life. The book gives step-by-step methods that will guide church leaders to do innovative ministry in the post-modern culture....

In his only novel set in his own time, Scott’s St. Ronan’s Well depicts the trials and tribulations of a fictional seaside town. The plot centers on Valentine Bulmer and his half-brother Francis Tyrrel and their fight over Miss Clara Mowbray, the sister of the village laird.

Published in 1816, and set during the wars with revolutionary France, this novel—Scott's personal favorite of all his works—features a mysterious young man, Lovel, whose arrival at the Scottish seaside town of Fairport exposes long-buried secrets and crimes involving the guilt-ridden Earl of Glenallan and a beautiful young woman, Isabella Wardour.

Besant set out in this 1901 novel to bring the life of the great King Alfred not just to the well-educated, but also to the masses. The New York Times said the work "presents a clear picture of Alfred's environment and childhood, his education, his wars and victories."

Although few, if any, of the countries of Europe, have increased so rapidly in wealth and cultivation as Scotland during the last half century, Sultan Mahmoud's owls might nevertheless have found in Caledonia, at any term within that flourishing period, their dowery of ruined villages. Accident or...

In point of time, this romance follows close upon "Quentin Durward," Charles the Bold being a leading figure in both. Here, however, the scene is largely Switzerland, while the characters are drawn from several countries. An idyllic romance between a Swiss maiden and an English refugee has...

The Revolt of Man was written during a certain summer holiday; day by day chapter by chapter, was read out, as it was finished, to two ladies. It is needless to say that their comments on the progress of events were often most valuable. Above all I may now acknowledge their advice as to the conclusion...

50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die Vol.1 (German Edition) Inhalt: Kandide oder Die beste aller Welten (1759) Die Leiden des jungen Werther (1774) Ahnung und Gegenwart (1815) Frankenstein oder Der moderne Prometheus (1818) Ivanhoe (1819) Eugénie Grandet (1833) Vater Goriot (1835) Gullivers...

"Waverley" is noteworthy not only in being the author's first novel, but also because it gives a fine panorama of an important historic period. The story is written around the Jacobite insurrection of 1745, led by Prince Charles Edward Stuart in the endeavor to place his exiled father upon...

Redgauntlet has been described as Scott’s most autobiographical novel. It depicts the fictitious early beginnings of a third Jacobite Rebellion. The protagonist, Darsie Latimer is kidnapped by Redgauntlet—and, like it or not, becomes part of a recruited army.  The novel also includes the entirety of one of Scott’s best-known short stories, “Wandering Willie’s Tale.”

Philibert de Gramont came of a noble Gascon family, said to have been Basque in origin. His grandmother, Diane d'Andouins, comtesse de Gramont, was "la belle Corisande," one of the mistresses of Henry IV. The grandson assumed that his father, Antoine II de Gramont, viceroy of Navarre, was...

The campaign in South Africa has proved beyond doubt the necessity for a strong force similar to that of the Boers. Their rapidity of movement has given us an important lesson in the military value of horses of that useful type which is suitable for light cavalry and mounted infantry. Since the war broke...

Contents Introduction by Henry Morley -- The Vision of Don Roderick -- The Field of Waterloo -- The Dance of Death -- Romance of Dunois -- The Troubadour -- Pibroch of Donald Dhu.