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  • The Fair Maid Of Perth Or St. Valentine’s Day
    Scott Sir Walter
    'The Fair Maid of Perth: St. Valentine’s Day' is an 1828 historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Perth and other parts of Scotland in the year 1400. The story revolves around Catherine Glover, known as the Fair Maid of Perth, who is caught between the love interests of two powerful men, the Duke of Rothesay and Henry Smith, a wealthy armorer. The novel is based on the true...
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  • The Black Dwarf
    Scott Sir Walter
    Set in the Scottish Borders shortly following the Union of Scotland and England in 1707, ’The Black Dwarf’ is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. Purposefully shrouded in mystery, the novel’s protagonist is a dwarf named Sir Edward Mauley, whose character is deemed a curse by those living in the area, who accuse Sir Edward of working with the Devil. The isolated figure of Sir Edward r...
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    13,83 €

  • Peveril Of The Peak
    Scott Bart Sir Walter
    Peveril of the Peak is a historical novel written by Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Peveril of the Peak is a thrilling historical novel that offers a fascinating glimpse into the political and social landscape of 17th-century England. The plot is set in the late 17th century and is centered around the events leading up to the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in England. The novel follows t...
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    21,68 €

  • Ivanhoe
    Walter Scott
    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, wi...
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    33,90 €

  • QUENTIN DURWARD
    Sir Walter Scott
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    36,20 €

  • Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 1
    Walter Scott
    Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 1, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created fro...
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    24,66 €

  • Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 4
    Walter Scott
    Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 4, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created fro...
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    24,93 €

  • Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 3
    Walter Scott
    Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 3, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created fro...
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    25,53 €

  • Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 5
    Walter Scott
    Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 5, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created fro...
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    25,80 €

  • The Heart of Mid-Lothian
    Walter Sir Walter Scott
    Sir Walter Scott wrote a book titled The Heart of Midlothian, which was released in 1818. Two sisters, Jeanie and Effie Deans, and their interactions with the Scottish court system are the focus of the novel, which is set in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the middle of the eighteenth century. An upright and devout young lady named Jeanie Deans is desperate to prevent her sister Effie ...
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    24,90 €

  • Marmion
    Walter Scott
    Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field in Six Cantos, 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 ...
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    21,34 €

  • Marmion
    Walter Scott
    Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field, 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 ...
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    17,67 €

  • A Legend of Montrose
    Walter Scott
    A Legend of Montrose, has been considered an important book throughout the human history. So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. The whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. This book is not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and ...
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    18,41 €

  • Scottish Demonology and Witchcraft (Folklore History Series)
    Walter Scott
    This insightful essay delves into old Scottish records to uncover the grisly truth behind the country’s witch trials.First published in 1830, this short fascinating volume reveals the true extent of demonology and witchcraft in Scotland. Disclosing multiple tales that evidence supernatural presences, Walter Scott chronicles the eerie history of sorcery in his home country. ...
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    22,68 €

  • The Betrothed
    Walter Scott
    The Betrothed (1825) is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. Set in the Welsh Marches in the 12th century it is the first of two Tales of the Crusaders, the second being The Talisman.Parts of the novel were incorporated into Francesco Maria Piave’s libretto for Giuseppe Verdi’s 1857 opera, Aroldo, itself a re-working of an earlier Verdi opera, Stiffelio. At the begin...
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    21,07 €

  • The Surgeon’s Daughter
    Walter Scott
    The Surgeon’s Daughter is part of Chronicles of the Canongate which is a collection of stories by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1827 and 1828 in the Waverley novels series. They are named after the Canongate, in Edinburgh. After his financial ruin at the beginning of 1826, Scott committed himself to writing works that would produce funds for the Trustees of James Ballantyne & ...
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    28,25 €

  • Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
    Walter Scott
    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Addressed to J. G. Lockhart, Esq. (1830) was a study of witchcraft and the supernatural by Sir Walter Scott. A lifelong student of folklore, Scott was able to draw on a wide-ranging collection of primary and secondary sources. His book found many readers throughout the 19th century, and exercised a significant influence in promoting the Vict...
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    19,90 €

  • Woodstock; or, the Cavalier
    Walter Scott
    Woodstock, or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one (1826) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Set just after the English Civil War, it was inspired by the legend of the Good Devil of Woodstock, which in 1649 supposedly tormented parliamentary commissioners who had taken possession of a royal residence at Woodstock, Ox...
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    24,60 €

  • The Antiquary
    Walter Scott
    The Antiquary (1816), the third of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott, centres on the character of an antiquary: an amateur historian, archaeologist and collector of items of dubious antiquity. He is the eponymous character and for all practical purposes the hero, though the characters of Lovel and Isabella Wardour provide the conventional love interest. The Antiquary was Scot...
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    34,06 €

  • The Black Dwarf
    Walter Scott
    One of the Waverley Novels by Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf was part of his Tales of My Landlord, 1st series (1816). 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. On 30 April 1816 Scott signed a contract with William Blackwood for a four-volume work of fiction, and on 22 August J...
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    17,70 €

  • The Bride of Lammermoor
    Walter Scott
    The Bride of Lammermoor is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1819, one of the Waverley novels. The novel is set in the Lammermuir Hills of south-east Scotland, shortly before the Act of Union of 1707 (in the first edition), or shortly after the Act (in the ’Magnum’ edition of 1830). It tells of a tragic love affair between young Lucy Ashton and her family’s e...
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    21,11 €

  • The Bride of Lammermoor
    Walter Scott
    The Bride of Lammermoor is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1819, one of the Waverley novels. The novel is set in the Lammermuir Hills of south-east Scotland, shortly before the Act of Union of 1707 (in the first edition), or shortly after the Act (in the ’Magnum’ edition of 1830). It tells of a tragic love affair between young Lucy Ashton and her family’s e...
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    31,75 €

  • Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
    Walter Scott
    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Addressed to J. G. Lockhart, Esq. (1830) was a study of witchcraft and the supernatural by Sir Walter Scott. A lifelong student of folklore, Scott was able to draw on a wide-ranging collection of primary and secondary sources. His book found many readers throughout the 19th century, and exercised a significant influence in promoting the Vict...
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    30,53 €

  • Redgauntlet
    Walter Scott
    Redgauntlet (1824) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels, set primarily in Dumfriesshire, southwest Scotland, in 1765, and described by Magnus Magnusson (a point first made by Andrew Lang) as 'in a sense, the most autobiographical of Scott’s novels.' It describes the beginnings of a fictional third Jacobite Rebellion, and includes 'Wandering Will...
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    22,09 €

  • The Monastery
    Walter Scott
    The Monastery: a Romance (1820) is a historical novel by Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Set in the Scottish Borders in the 1550s on the eve of the Reformation, it is centred on Melrose Abbey. Scott had been contemplating The Monastery before August 1819, and it seems likely that he started writing it in that month while the production of Ivanhoe was at a standstill b...
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    22,14 €

  • Redgauntlet
    Walter Scott
    Redgauntlet (1824) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels, set primarily in Dumfriesshire, southwest Scotland, in 1765, and described by Magnus Magnusson (a point first made by Andrew Lang) as 'in a sense, the most autobiographical of Scott’s novels.' It describes the beginnings of a fictional third Jacobite Rebellion, and includes 'Wandering Will...
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    34,03 €

  • The Talisman
    Walter Scott
    The Talisman is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. Published in 1825 as the second of his Tales of the Crusaders, the first being The Betrothed, it is set during the Third Crusade and centres on the relationship between Richard I of England and Saladin. (At the beginning of April 1824, two months before he completed Redgauntlet, Scott envisaged that it would be fol...
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    21,08 €

  • Rob Roy
    Walter Scott
    Rob Roy (1817) is a historical novel by Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. It is probably set in 1715, the year of the first Jacobite uprising, and the social and economic background to that event are an important element in the novel, though it is not treated directly. The depiction of Rob Roy bears little relation to the historical figure: ’there are two Rob Roys. One ...
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    33,92 €

  • Woodstock; or, the Cavalier
    Walter Scott
    Woodstock, or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one (1826) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Set just after the English Civil War, it was inspired by the legend of the Good Devil of Woodstock, which in 1649 supposedly tormented parliamentary commissioners who had taken possession of a royal residence at Woodstock, Ox...
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    33,90 €

  • Rob Roy
    Walter Scott
    Rob Roy (1817) is a historical novel by Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. It is probably set in 1715, the year of the first Jacobite uprising, and the social and economic background to that event are an important element in the novel, though it is not treated directly. The depiction of Rob Roy bears little relation to the historical figure: ’there are two Rob Roys. One ...
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    24,61 €


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