Waverley

Forsideomslag
ReadHowYouWant.com, 2006 - 488 sider
In the backdrop of political issues such as the Jacobite risings and clashes between the two factions, the author has narrated the romantic tale of Waverley. The ups and downs of the protagonist's life capture the imagination of the reader. Composed of two volumes, the twists and turns of the plot keep the readers anticipating.

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Chapter XXX
1
Chapter XXXVII
66
Chapter XXXVIII
77
Chapter XXXIX
87
Chapter XL
100
Chapter XLI
110
Chapter XLII
122
Chapter XLIII
133
Chapter XLVIII
190
Chapter XLIX
199
Chapter L
209
Chapter LI
219
Chapter LII
231
Chapter LIII
241
Chapter LIV
250
Chapter LV
257

Chapter XLIV
146
Chapter XLV
158
Chapter XLVI
167
Chapter XLVII
177
Chapter LVI
264
Chapter LVII
271
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Om forfatteren (2006)

Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on August 15, 1771. He began his literary career by writing metrical tales. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake made him the most popular poet of his day. Sixty-five hundred copies of The Lay of the Last Minstrel were sold in the first three years, a record sale for poetry. His other poems include The Vision of Don Roderick, Rokeby, and The Lord of the Isles. He then abandoned poetry for prose. In 1814, he anonymously published a historical novel, Waverly, or, Sixty Years Since, the first of the series known as the Waverley novels. He wrote 23 novels anonymously during the next 13 years. The first master of historical fiction, he wrote novels that are historical in background rather than in character: A fictitious person always holds the foreground. In their historical sequence, the Waverley novels range in setting from the year 1090, the time of the First Crusade, to 1700, the period covered in St. Roman's Well (1824), set in a Scottish watering place. His other works include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, and The Bride of Lammermoor. He died on September 21, 1832.

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