Ivanhoe, Walter Scott

Автор: Walter Scott
Название: Ivanhoe
ISBN: 0451531361 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451531360
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Walter Scott
Название: Old Mortality
ISBN: 0199555303 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199555307
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: 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, Henry Morton, joins the rebels in order to fight Scotland's royalist oppressors, little as he shares the Covenanters' extreme religious beliefs. He is torn between his love for a royalist's granddaughter and his loyalty to his downtrodden countrymen. As well as being a tale of divided loyalties, the novel is a crucial document in the cultural history of modern Scotland. Scott, himself a supporter of the union between Scotland and England, was trying to exorcise the violent past of a country uncomfortably coming to terms with its status as part of a modern United Kingdom. This novel is in itself a significant political document, in which Scott can be seen to be attempting to create a new centralist Scottish historiography, which is not the political consensus of his own time, the seventeenth century, or today.

Автор: Walter Scott
Название: The Antiquary
ISBN: 0199555710 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199555710
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Описание: First published in 1816 in the aftermath of Waterloo, The Antiquary deals with the problem of how to understand the past in order to enable the future. It displays Scott's matchless skill at painting the social panorama and in creating vivid characters,from the beggar Edie Ochiltree to the Antiquary himself. The text is based on Scott's own final, authorized version, the 'Magnum Opus' edition of 1829.

Автор: Walter Scott
Название: The Heart of Mid-Lothian
ISBN: 0140431292 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140431292
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Set in the 1730s in a Scotland uneasily united with England, this novel talks about different kinds of justice - that meted out by the Edinburgh mob in the lynching of Captain Porteous, and that encountered by a terrified young girl suspected of killing her baby. It is based on an anonymous letter received by the author in 1817.

Автор: Walter Scott
Название: Kenilworth
ISBN: 0140436545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140436549
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: 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. This story is a depiction of intrigue, power struggles and superstition in a bygone age.

Автор: Walter Scott
Название: Guy Mannering
ISBN: 014043657X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140436570
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Guy Mannering is an astrologer who only half-believes in his art. Instead he places his faith in patriarchal power, wealth and social position. But the Scotland of this novel is a nation in which the old hierarchies are breaking down and in which each social group lives by its own laws.