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Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (Volume 1) by Walter Scott has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (Volume 2); Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Walter Scott has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

St. Ronan's Well is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

The Antiquary first published in 1816. The Antiquary deals with the problem of how to understand the past so as to enable the future. Set in the tense times of the wars with revolutionary France, it displays Scott's matchless skill at painting the social panorama and in creating vivid characters, from the earthy beggar Edie Ochiltree to the loquacious and shrewdly humorous Antiquary himself. The Antiquary, Scott's personal favorite among his novels, is characteristically wry and urbane. A mysterious young man calling himself 'Lovel' travels idly but fatefully toward the Scottish seaside town of Fairport. Here he is befriended by the antiquary Jonathan Oldbuck, who has taken refuge from his own personal disappointments in the obsessive study of miscellaneous history.

A Legend of Montrose is an historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Scotland in the 1640s during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It forms, along with The Bride of Lammermoor, the 3rd series of Scott's Tales of My Landlord. The two novels were published together in 1819. Against the background of Montrose's campaign of 1644-5, this spirited novel centres on one of Scott's most memorable creations - Sir Dugald Dalgetty of Drumthwacket. This hard-headed Aberdonian contrasts tellingly with the weird and passionate Highland feud in which he becomes perilously entangled, as the narrative moves from Dalgetty's unflinching encounter with the Duke of Argyll, to his dramatic escape from Inveraray Castle to the battle of Inverlochy.

The Talisman is a 1984 fantasy novel by American writers Stephen King and Peter Straub. The plot is not related to that of Walter Scott's 1825 novel of the same name, although there is one oblique reference to "a Sir Walter Scott novel." The Talisman was nominated for the Locus and World Fantasy Awards in 1985. All in all, despite a few dated references to homosexuality, a slow start and a slightly damselly best friend, the Talisman was a truly epic journey. Many reviewers describe it as a kid's book for adults, a conclusion with which I wholeheartedly agree, indeed if you spent your childhood entranced by authors like C. S.

One of the Waverley Novels by Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf was part of his Tales of My Landlord, 1st series. It is set in 1708, in the Scottish Borders, against the background of the first uprising to be attempted by the Jacobites after the Act of Union. One of the harshest reviews was in the Quarterly Review, written anonymously by Scott himself.The introduction to The Black Dwarf attributes the work to Jedediah Cleishbotham, whom Scott had invented as a fictional editor of the Landlord series. It is here that we have the most complete view of this character.

El ardiente sol de Siria no había alcanzado aún su punto de mayor elevación en el horizonte, cuando un caballero cruzado que había abandonado su lejano hogar, en el Norte, para unirse a la hueste de los Cruzados en Palestina, atravesaba lentamente los arenosos desiertos que rodean al Mar Muerto, llamado también lago Asfaltites, donde las aguas del Jordán se reúnen en un mar interior, que no envía a otro alguno el tributo de sus olas. El peregrino guerrero había caminado entre rocas y precipicios durante la primera parte de la mañana. Más tarde, saliendo de aquellos roqueños y peligrosos desfiladeros, había salido a la gran llanura en que las ciudades malditas provocaron, en tiempos lejanos, la directa y terrible venganza del Omnipotente. El viajero olvidó las fatigas, la sed y los peligros de la jornada, al recordar la espantosa catástrofe que había convertido en árido y triste desierto el encantador y fértil valle de Siddim, antes regado y bello como el Paraíso, y reducido hoy a una soledad requemada por los rayos del sol y condenada a eterna esterilidad.

En aquel hermoso cantón de la dichosa Inglaterra bañado por las cristalinas aguas del río Don se extendía antiguamente una inmensa floresta que ocultaba la mayor parte de los valles y montañas que se encuentran entre Sheffield y la encantadora ciudad de Doncaster. Aún existen considerables restos de aquel bosque en las magníficas posesiones de Wentwort, Warncliffe-Park y en las cercanías de Rotherdham. Este fue, según la tradición, el Teatro de los estragos ejecutados por el fabuloso dragón de Wantley; allí se dieron algunas batallas libradas en las guerras civiles, cuando peleó la rosa encarnada contra la rosa blanca, y allí también campearon las partidas de valientes proscriptos, tan celebrados por sus hazañas en las populares canciones de Inglaterra.

Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. Set in England in the Middle Ages, this novel marked a shift away from Scott's prior practice of setting stories in Scotland and in the more recent past. Ivanhoe became one of Scott's best-known and most influential novels. Set in 12th-century England, with colourful descriptions of a tournament, outlaws, a witch trial, and divisions between Jews and Christians, Normans and Saxons, Ivanhoe was credited by many, including Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin, with inspiring increased interest in chivalric romance and medievalism. As John Henry Newman put it, Scott "had first turned men's minds in the direction of the Middle Ages". Ivanhoe was also credited with influencing contemporary popular perceptions of historical figures such as King Richard the Lionheart, Prince John, and Robin Hood. Ivanhoe is the story of one of the remaining Anglo-Saxon noble families at a time when the nobility in England was overwhelmingly Norman. It follows the Saxon protagonist, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who is out of favour with his father for Sir Wilfred's allegiance to the Norman king Richard the Lionheart. The story is set in 1194, after the failure of the Third Crusade, when many of the Crusaders were still returning to their homes in Europe. King Richard, who had been captured by Leopold of Austria on his return journey to England, was believed to still be in captivity. (wikipedia.org)

IL est un malaise de l¿âme que nous avons tous éprouvé pendant une longue soirée ou un jour sombre et pluvieux. Nos esprits engourdis perdent leur enjouement, rien ne peut hâter la marche lente des heures. Les rayons brillans de l¿imagination s¿obscurcissent, et la sagesse veut en vain nous offrir sa lumière le plus riant tableau nous parait sans couleur, et la plus douce musique sans mélodie. Nous n¿osons pas cependant nous plaindre de l¿invisible poids qui nous accable... Quelle sympathie trouverait celui qui ne peut dire ce qui cause sa peine ?

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