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Ivanhoe by Sharon Kay (AFT) Regina (FRW); Penman Sir; Marler Walter Scott
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Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Category: Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
"The Penguin English Library Edition" of "Ivanhoe" by Walter Scott. 'Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives!'. Banished from England for seeking to marry against his father's wishes, Ivanhoe joins Richard the Lion Heart on a crusade in the Holy Land. On his return, his passionate desire is t ...Show more
Ivanhoe by A. N. (EDT) Sir; Wilson Walter Scott
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
Ivanhoe (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Walter Scott
Category: Classic Fiction
Ivanhoe is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott. At the time it was written it represented a shift by Scott away from fairly realistic novels set in Scotland in the comparatively recent past, to a somewhat fanciful depiction of mediaeval England. It has proved to be one of the best known and most infl ...Show more
Kenilworth : A Romance by Walter Scott
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
In the court of Elizabeth I, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, is favoured above all the noblemen of England. It is rumoured that the Queen may chose him for her husband, but Leicester has secretly married the beautiful Amy Robsart. Fearing ruin if this were known, he keeps his lovely young wife a virtu ...Show more
Old Mortality by Scott Walter
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Set in Southern Scotland among a time of religious turmoil in the 17th century, Old Morality depicts a young soldier, Henry Morton, as he becomes involved with the armed struggle between two religious groups-the Covenanters and the Cavaliers. While the Cavaliers supported the church of England, Covenant ...Show more
Rob Roy by Walter Scott; Eric Anderson (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Sir Walter Scott--who invented the historical novel--is still the writer to whom we turn when we seek the undiluted pleasures of narrative romance. His Rob Roy (1817) is a rousing tale of skulduggery and highway robbery, villainy and nobility, treasonous plots and dramatic escapes--and young love. From ...Show more
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.' Set just before the Jacobite Rising in 1715, Scott drew upon the political and economic struggles leading up to the rebellion and the tumultuous history of the H ...Show more
Rob Roy by Walter Scott
Category: Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
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 ...Show more
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics
From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characters. The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor was already a legendary, disputed figure by the time Scott wrote - a heroic Scottish Robin Hood to some, an over-glamoris ...Show more