The Collected Works of Sir Walter Scott

The Collected Works of Sir Walter Scott

by Magdalene de LanceyThomas De Quincey Count Anthony Hamilton and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 09/05/2016

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This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 41600 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Ivanhoe: A Romance • The Lady of the Lake • Rob Roy — Complete • Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since • Old Mortality, Complete • The Bride of Lammermoor • The Talisman • The Antiquary • Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft • The Heart of Mid-Lothian • Kenilworth • The Journal of Sir • Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field in Six Cantos • Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer • Quentin Durward • Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century • The Monastery • The Pirate • The Black Dwarf • The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day • Minstrelsy of the Scottish border, Volume • The Abbot • Chronicles of the Canongate, st Series • A Legend of Montrose • Brave Men and WomenOsgood E. Fuller • The Fortunes of Nigel • The Surgeon's Daughter • Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border • The Lady of the Lake • St. Ronan's Well • Anne of Geierstein • Waverley; Or 'Tis Sixty Years Since • Woodstock; or, the Cavalier • Peveril of the Peak • Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since • The Tapestried Chamber, and Death of the Laird's Jock • The Betrothed • The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume • My Aunt Margaret's Mirror • Scott's Lady of the Lake • Guy Mannering • Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer • Anne of Geierstein • Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field • Waverley Novels • Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border) • The Dramatic Works of John Dryden • Some Poems • Rob Roy • Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer • Old Mortality • The Heart of Mid-Lothian • The Prose Marmion and Sara Davis Jenkins • Old Mortality • Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald • The Antiquary • Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since • etc.

ISBN:
9783956701177
9783956701177
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
09-05-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
PergamonMedia
Thomas De Quincey

Thomas De Quincey (1785 1859) was a journalist and author best known for Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Suspiria de Profundis ' and The English Mail-Coach '.

His extraordinary and wide-ranging influence can be felt in authors from Baudelaire to J.G. Ballard, with the former describing him as one of the most original minds in England.

Walter Scott

Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh on 15 August 1777. He was educated in Edinburgh and called to the bar in 1792, succeeding his father as Writer to the Signet, then Clerk of Session. He published anonymous translations of German Romantic poetry from 1797, in which year he also married. In 1805 he published his first major work, a romantic poem called The Lay of the Last Minstrel, became a partner in a printing business, and several other long poems followed, including Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810) . These poems found acclaim and great popularity, but from 1814 and the publication of Waverley , Scott turned almost exclusively to novel-writing, albeit anonymously.

A hugely prolific period of writing produced over twenty-five novels, including Rob Roy (1817), The Heart of Midlothian (1818), The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), Kenilworth (1821) and Redgauntlet (1824) . Already sheriff-depute of Selkirkshire, Scott was created a baronet in 1820. The printing business in which Scott was a partner ran into financial difficulties in 1826, and Scott devoted his energies to work in order to repay the firm’s creditors, publishing many more novels, dramatic works, histories and a life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Sir Walter Scott died on 21 September 1832 at Abbotsford, the home he had built on the Scottish Borders.

Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1771, educated at the High School and University there and admitted to the Scottish Bar in 1792. From 1799 until his death he was Sheriff of Selkirkshire, and from 1806 to 1830 he held a well-paid office as a principal clerk to the Court of Session in Edinburgh, the supreme Scottish civil court. From 1805, too, Scott was secretly an investor in, and increasingly controller of, the printing and publishing businesses of his associates, the Ballantyne brothers.

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