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Sur une lande désolée, le château dangereux se dresse, verrou stratégique où s'affrontent anglais et écossais. Un ménestrel et un pèlerin se dirigent vers ce château «hanté». Emprisonnements, combats, évasions, grimoires, fantômes, chevaliers sortis du brouillard, le...

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Télécharger le livre :  La Prison d'Edinbourg
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'être exécuté . Porteous a outrepassé sa mission, il ne devait veiller qu'à l'exécution de la...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Betrothed
The Tales of the Crusaders was determined upon as the title of the following series of the Novels, rather by the advice of the few friends whom, death has now rendered still fewer, than by the author's own taste. Not but that he saw plainly enough the interest which...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Black Dwarf
COLLECTED AND REPORTED BY JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM, SCHOOLMASTER AND PARISH-CLERK OF GANDERCLEUGH.

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Télécharger le livre :  Kenilworth
A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting her sister and her foe, the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have approached the task with the...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Lady of the Lake
When I first saw Mr. Osgood's beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result.

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Télécharger le livre :  The Legend of Montrose
The Legend of Montrose was written chiefly with a view to place before the reader the melancholy fate of John Lord Kilpont, eldest son of William Earl of Airth and Menteith, and the singular circumstances attending the birth and history of James Stewart of Ardvoirlich,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Marmion
The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Scott's first romantic tale, was published in January, 1805, and won for its author his first great success. The writing of Marmion was begun in November, 1806. Constable offered as publisher to pay at once a thousand guineas for the...

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Télécharger le livre :  My Aunt Margaret's Mirror
The species of publication which has come to be generally known by the title of ANNUAL, being a miscellany of prose and verse, equipped with numerous engravings, and put forth every year about Christmas, had flourished for a long while in Germany before it was imitated...

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Télécharger le livre :  Old Mortality
The origin of Old Mortality, perhaps the best of Scott's historical romances, is well known. In May, 1816, Mr. Joseph Train, the gauger from Galloway, breakfasted with Scott in Castle Street. He brought gifts in his hand, - a relic of Rob Roy, and a parcel of...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Talisman
The Betrothed did not greatly please one or two friends, who thought that it did not well correspond to the general title ofThe Crusaders. They urged, therefore, that, without direct allusion to the manners of the Eastern tribes, and to the romantic conflicts of the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Bride of Lammermoor
THE Author, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occurring at a distant period, it might possibly be unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of the parties. But as he finds an...

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Télécharger le livre :  Guy Mannering
The Novel or Romance of WAVERLEY made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Monastery
It would be difficult to assign any good reason why the author of Ivanhoe, after using, in that work, all the art he possessed to remove the personages, action, and manners of the tale, to a distance from his own country, should choose for the scene of his next attempt...

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Télécharger le livre :  Waverley
The plan of this Edition leads me to insert in this place some account of the incidents on which the Novel of WAVERLEY is founded. They have been already given to the public, by my late lamented friend, William Erskine, Esq. (afterwards Lord Kinneder), when reviewing...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Chronicles of the Canongate
The preceding volume of this Collection concluded the last of the pieces originally published under the NOMINIS UMBRA ofThe Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the writer to continue longer in the possession of his incognito were...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Abbot
From what is said in the Introduction to the Monastery, it must necessarily be inferred, that the Author considered that romance as something very like a failure. It is true, the booksellers did not complain of the sale, because, unless on very felicitous occasions, or...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Lady of the Lake annotated by William J. Rolfe
"Harp of the North! that mouldering long hast hung On the witch-elm that shades Saint Fillan's spring And down the fitful breeze thy numbers flung, Till envious ivy did around thee cling, Muffling with verdant ringlet every string, O Minstrel Harp, still must thine...

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