Ivanhoe (Scott Walter)(Paperback)

Ivanhoe (edice Světová četba pro školáky) - Walter Scott

Kniha Ivanhoe:Tento román byl největším literárním úspěchem skotského spisovatele Waltera Scotta. Napsal ho v roce 1819 a je to jedno z prvních děl žánru historického románu. Jeho děj se odehrává ve středověké Anglii. Hlavní hrdina, statečný saský rytíř Ivanhoe, bojoval

Ivanhoe (Scott Walter)(Paperback)

In Ivanhoe Scott fashioned an imperial myth of national cultural identity that has shaped the popular imagination ever since its first appearance at the end of 1819. With the secret return of King Richard and the disinherited Saxon knight Ivanhoe, Scott confronts his splendid and tumultuous

Ivanhoe (Scott Walter)(Paperback / softback)

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 to be reunited with the beautiful but forbidden lady

Ivanhoe (Scott Walter)(Paperback)

'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 to be reunited with the beautiful but forbidden lady Rowena, but

Ivanhoe - Walter Scott

Bojujte, stateční rytíři! Člověk umírá, sláva přežije! - Bojujte! Je lepší zemřít, než se vzdát! Mladý rytíř Wilfred z Ivanhoe se ve věci lásky vzepřel otcově vůli, a tak musel opustit Anglii. S vojskem krále Richarda Lví srdce se zúčastnil křížové výpravy do

Waverley (Scott Walter)(Paperback)

The first historical novel and an international bestsellerSir Walter Scott was one of the bestselling novelists of the nineteenth century and is credited with establishing the historical novel. His first novel, Waverley (1814), tells the story of Edward Waverley, a naive young man who is posted to

The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott (Robertson Fiona)(Paperback)

This is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent

Wendy, Master of Art (Scott Walter)(Paperback)

'[In Wendy, Master of Art, ] Scott manages a rare thing: the sharpness of his satire doesn't preclude a realistic rendering of personhood, and the seeming flatness opens up, at every turn, to a depth of feeling.... His mastery of his characters' faces and gestures is also wonderful, his line quick

The Lady of the Lake (Scott Walter)(Paperback)

The Lady of the Lake marked the pinnacle of Walter Scott's popularity as a poet, with record-breaking sales and ecstatic reviews which helped spread his fame far beyond Britain. It also inspired thousands to flock to Loch Katrine in the Trossachs to see for themselves the isle where the banished

Scott-land - The Man Who Invented a Nation (Kelly Stuart)(Paperback / softback)

Stuart Kelly's biography of Sir Walter Scott defies classification in terms of genre. Rather than a literary biography, or critical study, it is a personal examination of the sometimes overwhelming affect Scott has had on Scottish identity at large, and on how his legacy affects the very act of

The Antiquary (Scott Walter)(Paperback)

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

Wendy (Scott Walter)(Paperback)

The outrageously funny and painfully relatable satire of an aspiring artist and millennial culture Walter Scott's Wendy comics have become a critical sensation, with rave reviews in The New Yorker and The Guardian, and an appearance in the Best American Comics anthology. Learn Wendy's origin story

Redgauntlet (Scott Walter)(Paperback)

Arguably Scott's finest novel, and the last of his major Scottish novels, Redgauntlet centers around a third, fictitious, Jacobite rebellion set in the summer of 1765. The novel's hero, young Darsie Latimer, is kidnapped by Edward Hugh Redgauntlet, a fanatical supporter of the Stewart cause, and

The Fortunes of Nigel (Scott Sir Walter)(Paperback)

Nigel Olifaunt, a Scottish nobleman, travels to England to collect a debt on his late father's behalf, but is ultimately met with deception and disappointment. The Fortunes of Nigel is one man's tumultuous journey to keep what's rightfully his. Following his father's death, Nigel Olifaunt leaves

Old Mortality (Scott Walter)(Paperback)

Old Mortality (1816), which many consider the finest of Scott's Waverley novels, is a swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland, in the period infamous as the killing time'. Its central character,

The Talisman (Scott Sir Walter)(Paperback)

When King Richard the Lionheart's health began to decline, the English leader organized a truce with the leader of the Islamic forces, Saladin. Agreeing to cease the battles on the condition that Jerusalem would be under Muslim control, the two leaders gave orders to their troops to return to their

Waverley (Scott Walter)(Paperback)

'The most romantic parts of this narrative are precisely those which have a foundation in fact.' Edward Waverley, a young English soldier in the Hanoverian army, is sent to Scotland where he finds himself caught up in events that quickly transform from the stuff of romance into nightmare. His

Rob Roy (Scott Walter)(Paperback)

By turns thrilling and comic, Rob Roy contains Scott's most sophisticated treatment of the Scottish Highlands as an imaginary space where the modern and the primitive come together. Newly edited from the Magnum Opus' text of 1830, this edition includes full explanatory notes and a critical

Waverley (Scott Sir Walter)(Paperback / softback)

Thefirst historical novel this tale of romance and adventure during the 1745 Jacobite rebellion will stir the blood and warm the heart King George is on the throne, but there are those in Scotland who swear loyalty to the Stuart heir, Bonnie Prince Charlie, and are prepared to stake his claim in

Old Mortality, Volume 1 (Scott Sir Walter Llb)(Pevná vazba)

Fair Helen (Greig Andrew)(Paperback / softback)

Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2014. 'One of the best historical novels of recent years, Greig dusts off the past and presents it with tremendous skill' - Literary Review 'A Triumph of suspense' - Guardian Saltire Award-winning author Andrew Greig reimagines the

The Ragged Lion (Massie Allan)(Paperback)

In this critically-acclaimed fictional memoir of Sir Walter Scott, Allan Massie recreates the life and times of one of Scotland's greatest writers, convincingly capturing Scott's humour, stoicism and eccentricity. Combining imaginative plausibility with his own deep knowledge of and love forScott's

Kenilworth (Scott Walter)(Paperback / softback)

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

Hermetica: Volume Two (Scott Walter)(Paperback)

First published in 1924, this classic four-volume work contains various Greek and Latin writings of religious or philosophic teachings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, with Walter Scott's extensive notes, commentary, and addenda. It is said that these teachings are records of private, intimate