The Collected Works of Sir Walter Scott E-Book

Walter Scott

• Herausgeber: PergamonMedia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

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.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

WAVERLEY or 'TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE

Under which King, Bezonian? speak, or die!

Henry IV

INTRODUCTION—(1829)

WAVERLEY or 'TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER II

WAVERLEY-HONOUR—-A RETROSPECT

CHAPTER III

EDUCATION

CHAPTER IV

CASTLE-BUILDING

CHAPTER V

CHOICE OF A PROFESSION

CHAPTER VI

THE ADIEUS OF WAVERLEY

CHAPTER VII

A HORSE-QUARTER IN SCOTLAND

CHAPTER VIII

A SCOTTISH MANOR-HOUSE SIXTY YEARS SINCE

CHAPTER IX

MORE OF THE MANOR-HOUSE AND ITS ENVIRONS

CHAPTER X

ROSE BRADWARDINE AND HER FATHER

CHAPTER XI

THE BANQUET

CHAPTER XII

REPENTANCE AND A RECONCILIATION

CHAPTER XIII

A MORE RATIONAL DAY THAN THE LAST

CHAPTER XIV

A DISCOVERY—WAVERLEY BECOMES DOMESTICATED AT TULLY-VEOLAN

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

AN UNEXPECTED ALLY APPEARS

CHAPTER XVII

THE HOLD OF A HIGHLAND ROBBER

CHAPTER XVIII

WAVERLEY PROCEEDS ON HIS JOURNEY

CHAPTER XIX

THE CHIEF AND HIS MANSION

CHAPTER XX

A HIGHLAND FEAST

CHAPTER XXI

THE CHIEFTAIN'S SISTER

CHAPTER XXII

HIGHLAND MINSTRELSY

CHAPTER XXIII

WAVERLEY CONTINUES AT GLENNAQUOICH

CHAPTER XXIV

A STAG-HUNT, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

CHAPTER XXV

NEWS FROM ENGLAND

CHAPTER XXVI

AN ECLAIRCISSEMENT

CHAPTER XXVII

UPON THE SAME SUBJECT

CHAPTER XXVIII

A LETTER FROM TULLY-VEOLAN

CHAPTER XXIX

WAVERLEY'S RECEPTION IN THE LOWLANDS AFTER HIS HIGHLAND TOUR

CHAPTER XXX

SHOWS THAT THE LOSS OF A HORSE'S SHOE MAY BE A SERIOUS INCONVENIENCE

CHAPTER XXXI

AN EXAMINATION

CHAPTER XXXII

A CONFERENCE, AND THE CONSEQUENCE

CHAPTER XXXIII

A CONFIDANT

CHAPTER XXXIV

THINGS MEND A LITTLE

CHAPTER XXXV

A VOLUNTEER SIXTY YEARS SINCE

CHAPTER XXXVI

AN INCIDENT

CHAPTER XXXVII

WAVERLEY IS STILL IN DISTRESS

CHAPTER XXXVIII

A NOCTURNAL ADVENTURE

CHAPTER XXXIX

THE JOURNEY IS CONTINUED

CHAPTER XL

AN OLD AND A NEW ACQUAINTANCE

CHAPTER XLI

THE MYSTERY BEGINS TO BE CLEARED UP

CHAPTER XLII

A SOLDIER'S DINNER

CHAPTER XLIII

THE BALL

CHAPTER XLIV

THE MARCH

CHAPTER XLV

AN INCIDENT GIVES RISE TO UNAVAILING REFLECTIONS

CHAPTER XLVI

THE EVE OF BATTLE

CHAPTER XLVII

THE CONFLICT

CHAPTER XLVIII

AN UNEXPECTED EMBARRASSMENT

CHAPTER XLIX

THE ENGLISH PRISONER

CHAPTER L

RATHER UNIMPORTANT

CHAPTER LI

INTRIGUES OF LOVE AND POLITICS

CHAPTER LII

INTRIGUES OF SOCIETY AND LOVE

CHAPTER LIII

FERGUS A SUITOR

CHAPTER LIV

'TO ONE THING CONSTANT NEVER'

CHAPTER LV

A BRAVE MAN IN SORROW

CHAPTER LVI

EXERTION

CHAPTER LVII

THE MARCH

CHAPTER LVIII

THE CONFUSION OF KING AGRAMANT'S CAMP

CHAPTER LIX

A SKIRMISH

CHAPTER LX

CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS

CHAPTER LXI

A JOURNEY TO LONDON

CHAPTER LXII

WHAT'S TO BE DONE NEXT?

CHAPTER LXIII

DESOLATION

CHAPTER LXIV

COMPARING OF NOTES

CHAPTER LXV

MORE EXPLANATION

CHAPTER LXVI

CHAPTER LXVII

CHAPTER LXVIII:

CHAPTER LXIX

CHAPTER LXX

DOLCE DOMUM

CHAPTER LXXI

CHAPTER LXXII

A POSTSCRIPT, WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN A PREFACE

NOTES

GLOSSARY

COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS—CASTLE DANGEROUS— MY AUNT MARGARET'S MIRROR, &c. &c.

COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS.

ADVERTISEMENT.—(1833.)

INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS.

JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM, A.M.

TO THE LOVING READER WISHETH HEALTH AND PROSPERITY.

COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS.

CHAPTER THE FIRST.

CHAPTER THE SECOND.

CHAPTER THE THIRD.

CHAPTER THE FOURTH.

THE RETREAT OF LAODICEA.

NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE GREEK OF THE PRINCESS COMNENA'S HISTORY OF HER FATHER.

CHAPTER THE FIFTH.

CHAPTER THE SIXTH.

CHAPTER THE SEVENTH.

CHAPTER THE EIGHTH.

CHAPTER THE NINTH.

CHAPTER THE TENTH.

CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH.

CHAPTER THE TWELFTH.

CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH.

CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH.

CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH.

CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH.

CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH.

CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH.

CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH.

CHAPTER THE TWENTIETH.

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIRST.

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SECOND.

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-THIRD.

CHAPTER THE TWENTH-FOURTH.

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIFTH.

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SIXTH.

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SEVENTH.

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-EIGHTH.

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-NINTH.

CHAPTER THE THIRTIETH.

CHAPTER THE THIRTY-FIRST.

CHAPTER THE THIRTY-SECOND.

CHAPTER THE THIRTY-THIRD.

CHAPTER THE THIRTY-FOURTH.

CASTLE DANGEROUS

INTRODUCTION.—(1832.)

APPENDIX.

EXTRACTS FROM "THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSES OF DOUGLAS AND ANGUS. BY MASTER DAVID HUME OF GODSCROFT." FOL. EDIT.

CASTLE DANGEROUS.

CHAPTER THE FIRST.

CHAPTER THE SECOND.

CHAPTER THE THIRD.

CHAPTER THE FOURTH.

CHAPTER THE FIFTH.

CHAPTER THE SIXTH.

CHAPTER THE SEVENTH.

CHAPTER THE EIGHTH.

CHAPTER THE NINTH.

"DEAR AUGUSTINE,

"BERTRAM."

CHAPTER THE TENTH.

CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH.

CHAPTER THE TWELFTH.

CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH.

CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH.

CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH.

CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH.

CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH.

CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH.

CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH.