Kirjailija
Walter Scott
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 2 841 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1922–2026, suosituimpiin kuuluu Harold l'Indomptable. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
2 841 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1922–2026.
Select Works Of Tobias Smollett V2: Containing A Memoir Of The Author, The Adventures Of Roderick Random, The Adventures Of Sir Launcelot Greaves, The
Tobias George Smollett; Walter Scott
KESSINGER PUBLISHING, LLC
2007
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The Waverly Anecdotes V1: Illustrative Of The Incidents, Characters And Scenery Described In The Novels And Romances Of Sir Walter Scott
Walter Scott
KESSINGER PUBLISHING, LLC
2007
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Sir Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
Walter Scott; T. F. (EDT) Henderson
Kessinger Pub
2006
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Quentin Durward is a young Scotsman seeking fame and fortune in the France of Louis XI in the fifteenth century. He knows little and understands less, but Scott represents his ignorance and naivete as useful to 'the most sagacious prince in Europe' who needs servants motivated solely by the desire for coin and credit and lacking any interest in France which would interfere with the execution of his political aims. In Quentin Durward Scott studies the first modern state in the process of destroying the European feudal system. By far the most important of Scott's sources for Quentin Durward is the splendid Memoirs of Philippe de Comines. Comines, who has more than a walk-on role in the novel itself, was trusted councillor of Charles the Bold of Burgundy until 1472, when Louis XI persuaded him to enter his service. Scott's contrasting portraits of Louis and Charles, crafty king and fiery duke, essentially derives from Comines, whose memoirs are generally regarded as the first example of modern analytical history rather than chronicle. But it is as story that Quentin Durward succeeds, and it is one of Scott's most absorbing tales.
When young Francis Osbaldistone discovers that his vicious and scheming cousin Rashleigh has designs both on his father's business and his beloved Diana Vernon, he turns in desperation to Rob Roy for help. Chieftain of the MacGregor clan, Rob Roy is a brave and fearless man, able and cunning. But he is also an outlaw with a price on his head, and as he and Francis join forces to pursue Rashleigh, he is constantly aware that he, too, is being pursued - and could be captured at any moment. Set on the eve of the 1715 Jacobite uprising, Rob Roy brilliantly evokes a Scotland on the verge of rebellion, blending historical fact and a novelist's imagination to create an incomparable portrait of intrigue, rivalry and romance.
