Walter Scott: 696 books

L’ESPÈCE de succès plus ou moins mérité que l’auteur avait obtenu dans l’esquisse du portrait de la reine Marie Stuart[1], a tout naturellement déterminé l’essai d’une peinture analogue de sa royale sœur et ennemie, la célèbre Élisabeth. Je ne prétendrai point cependant avoir...

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,...

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...

Jeanie Deans, a dairymaid, decides she must walk to London to gain an audience with the Queen. Her sister is to be executed for infanticide and, while refusing to lie to help her case, Jeanie is desperate for a reprieve. Set in the 1730s in a Scotland uneasily united with England, The Heart of Mid-Lothian...

Woodstock is considered the darkest of Scott’s novels, written during a period of great tumult in the author’s life. Set during the English Civil War, the story imagines treachery, a love triangle, and the escape of Charles II in 1651, as well as his triumphant return to London eight years later.

'Far and wide was [Redgauntlet] hated and feared. Men thought he had a direct compact with Satan - that he was proof against steel -.' Set in the summer of 1765, Redgauntlet centres around a third, fictitious, Jacobite rebellion. Kidnapped by Edward Hugh Redgauntlet, a fanatical supporter of the Stewart...

This story first appeared in Scott's 1827 collection, Chronicles of the Canongate. The narrator tells the tale of a woman who is left a widow after her freebooting husband’s murder by redcoats. She attempts to raise their son in his father’s image—but as Scotland’s splendor fades, her son makes plans of his own.

On the night Harry Bertram is born, astrologer Guy Mannering, a house guest of the Bertrams, predicts young Harry’s future. Five years later, Mannering’s prophecy is fulfilled, and Harry is kidnapped by plotters who want to rob him of his inheritance. Scott’s gripping tale follows Harry’s battle through the years to claim his rightful inheritance.

'the most romantic parts of this narrative are precisely those which have a foundation in fact' Edward Waverley, a young English soldier in the Hanoverian army, is sent to Scotland where he finds himself caught up in events that quickly transform from the stuff of romance into nightmare. His character...

Como Wordsworth, Scott tuvo que crear el gusto para su obra. Descubrió que no hay romance como el romance de la vida real. Como escritor, trató de reconciliar para el lector todas las variedades de la naturaleza humana, y la historia del arte le ha correspondido transformando "Ivanhoe"...

La lealtà, il coraggio e la fedeltà di Ivanhoe, eroe “senza macchia”, taciturno e schivo, hanno affascinato lettori d’ogni cultura e paese. Dotato di rara abilità descrittiva e di una notevole penetrazione psicologica, Scott divulgò un romanticismo privo di tormenti interiori o di aspetti...

Catalogue OF Special Technical Works FOR Manufacturers, Students, and Technical Schools BY EXPERT WRITERS PUBLISHED BY SCOTT, GREENWOOD & CO.

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...

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.