Waverly: Historical Novel, Paperback - Walter Scott

Reducere. It is the time of the Scottish Jacobite uprising of 1745 which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart, known a...

The outrageously funny and painfully relatable satire of an aspiring artist and millennial culture Walter Scott's Wendy comics have become a critic...

Reducere. Sir Walter Scott was the first English-language author in literary history to have international success during his actual lifetime. His works were...

Reducere. First published in 1924, this classic four-volume work contains various Greek and Latin writings of religious or philosophic teachings ascribed to ...

This critique of the art world will have you crying with laughter In Wendy's Revenge, Scott's titular heroine returns with a fresh set of awkward m...

Arguably Scott's finest novel, and the last of his major Scottish novels, Redgauntlet centers around a third, fictitious, Jacobite rebellion set in...

According to the American Cancer Society, nearly 220, 000 Americans are diagnosed with lung cancer annually. It accounts for nearly 15 percent of a...

Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. A doctor looks back on the patient whose dark secret changed his understanding of wha...

Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (2015), The Ten Thousand Things takes us on a journey across fated meetings, grand battles ...

Set within a framing narrative told by Chrystal Croftangry, these three stories are set in the years following the Jacobite defeat and all feature ...

Contributor(s): Author: Walter ScottWhen young Francis Osbaldistone discovers that his vicious and scheming cousin Rashleigh has designs both on hi...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In Ivanhoe Scott fashioned an imperial myth of national cultural identity that has shaped the popular imagination ever since its first appearance a...

DescriptionThe Antiquary, Scott's personal favorite among his novels, is characteristically wry and urbane. A mysterious young man calling himself ...

Reducere. Figura legendara a „haiducului“ Rob Roy l-a fascinat pe Walter Scott, care, in introducerea sa la roman il prenumara printre oamenii „cu firea darz...

Reducere. Copiii adora povestile, iar cele clasice au fost intotdeauna printre favoritele lor. Totusi, uneori, o carte groasa pare destul de descurajanta, nu...

The special hardback edition of David Purdie's inspired reworking of Sir Walter Scott's classic historical novel. Archaic syntax and extraneous det...

Reducere. In Anglia secolului al XII-lea, saxonii si normanzii isi disputa prin lupta puterea tarii. Regele Richard I incearca sa mentina pacea, dar nu reuse...

In the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, Minneapolis resident Walter R. Scott produced a series of books profiling the African American community of the Twin ...

The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the corrupt Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland are frustra...

This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infur...

Georg Lukacs (1885-1971) is now recognised as one of the most innovative and best-informed literary critics of the twentieth century. Trained in th...

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Taking inspiration from the incomparably beautiful and intense poetry of Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Spurling - a lifelong classicis...

Reducere. Pepita Jiménez depicts the gradual realization by a young seminarian of the empty vanity of his vocation, while he falls in love on the eve of his ...

Barnaby Rudge is a story of a forbidden love in the time of great London riots in 1780. Both Edward's father, John Chester, and Emma's uncle, the C...

Reducere. Zanoni, a timeless Rosicrucian brother, possesses occult powers and knows the secret of eternal life. However, he cannot fall in love without losin...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Walter Scott's novels and poems reveal his view of history and the influences that made him, especially the stories of his native Borders and the e...

Reducere. Elaine was typing out letters from POWs and reminding herself that she would not cry. Poor Sam in Burma doubted whether he would ever see his child...

THE INFIDEL: The SS Occult Conspiracy is a supernatural historical thriller set inside Nazi Germany. Not a doctrinaire Nazi, SS Lieutenant Ernst Te...

Ivanhoe - Walter Scott

Ivanhoe - Walter Scott

Reducere. He leaned forward so his voice was no more than a breath. "This war will not be won by keeping your head down. We must act. Quickly, quietly. There...

A dramatically powerful saga of secrets, love and betrayal for fans of Anna Jacobs, Nadine Dorries and Rita Bradshaw.

Reducere. Beric the Briton takes place during the Emperor Nero's reign and follows the adventures of a young Beric who, as a young boy, gets captured by Roma...

Reducere. I'll never forget the night when everything changed. I saw the first glimmers of daylight over the roofs from the window before I heard it. We were...