Walter Scott: 696 books

Book cover of Der Zauberspiegel
by Walter Scott
Language: German
Release Date: January 24, 2018

Meine Tante Margarete war eine Dame von jener ehrenwerten Schwesternschaft, die sich mit all jenen Mühen und Bekümmernissen trägt, welche der Besitz von Kindern mit sich bringt, mit Ausnahme allein jener Beschwernisse, von denen ihr Eintritt in die Welt begleitet ist. Wir waren eine sehr zahlreiche...
Book cover of Der schwarze Zwerg

Der schwarze Zwerg

Historischer Roman

by Walter Scott
Language: German
Release Date: December 20, 2017

An einem prächtigen Aprilmorgen ritten zwei Reiter auf das Gasthaus zu, dessen Schild die Aufschrift »Zum Wallace« führte. Es hatte in der Nacht vorher tüchtig geschneit. Das Erdreich war mit einem glitzernden Mantel bedeckt, der sicher seine sechs Fuß dick war. Der erste der beiden Reiter war...
Book cover of La Jolie Fille de Perth (Le Jour de Saint-Valentin)
by Sir Walter Scott
Language: French
Release Date: June 29, 2015

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...
Book cover of La Prison d'Édinbourg
by Sir Walter Scott
Language: French
Release Date: June 29, 2015

Édimbourg, 14 Avril 1736. Le capitaine des gardes d'Édimbourg, John Porteous, ordonne de tirer sur la foule qui souhaite récupérer le corps d'un contrebandier qui vient d'etre exécuté . Porteous a outrepassé sa mission, il ne devait veiller qu'a l'exécution de la sentence, le reste n'étant...
Book cover of The Lady of the Lake
by Walter Scott
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019

Widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time.
Book cover of Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
by Walter Scott
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018

In these "Letters upon Demonology and Witchcraft," addressed to his son-in-law, written under the first grasp of death, the old kindliness and good sense, joined to the old charm in story-telling, stand firm yet against every assault; and even in the decay that followed, when the powers were broken...
Book cover of The Black Dwarf
by Walter Scott
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018

The Black Dwarf is set in the immediate aftermath of the Union between England and Scotland in 1707. The political action is centred on the first uprising to be attempted by Jacobites after the Union, the aborted landing of the exiled James Francis Edward Stuart and a large French fleet in March 1708....
Book cover of Peveril of the Peak (Unabridged)
by Walter Scott
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018

This eBook edition of "Peveril of the Peak" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Sir Geoffrey Peveril and Major Bridgenorth had been boys together, and although they adopted different views in religion and politics, the Roundhead...
Book cover of Old Mortality, Illustrated, Volume 1.
by Sir Walter Scott
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Book cover of The Black Dwarf
by Sir Walter Scott
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015

Book cover of Le Comte Robert de Paris
by Walter Scott
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2017

Les armées de la première croisade arrivent peu à peu devant Constantinople. Dans l'état de faiblesse où se trouve son empire, l'empereur Alexis doit rester prudent. Il cherche à éblouir les barons pour se donner de l'importance à leurs yeux, ne reculant ni devant la bassesse ni devant la...
Book cover of L’Antiquaire
by Walter Scott
Language: French
Release Date: November 8, 2015

Book cover of Woodstock

Woodstock

Historical Novel

by Walter Scott
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018

Set just after the English Civil War, the novel is inspired by the legend of the Good Devil of Woodstock, which in 1649 supposedly tormented parliamentary commissioners who had taken possession of a royal residence at Oxfordshire. The story deals with the escape of Charles II in 1652, during the Commonwealth, and his final triumphant entry into London.
Book cover of Le miroir de ma tante Marguerite
by WALTER SCOTT
Language: French
Release Date: November 6, 2018

« Comme on ne recevait point de nouvelles de sir Philippe directement ni indirectement, elle éprouvait une espèce de consolation en songeant à cette même insouciance qui lui causait tant de peine. « Il est si étourdi, disait-elle cent fois par jour à sa sœur ; il n’écrit jamais lorsque...
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