Waverley; Or 'Tis Sixty Years Sinceanboco, 25 ago 2016 - 500 páginas It is the time of the Jacobite uprising of 1745 which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart, known as "Bonnie Prince Charlie". A young English dreamer and soldier, Edward Waverley, is sent to Scotland that year. He journeys north from his aristocratic family home, Waverley-Honour, in the south of England, first to the Scottish Lowlands and the home of family friend Baron Bradwardine, then into the Highlands and the heart of the rebellion and its aftermath. |
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... course of the events which occasioned the disclosure of the Author's name having, in a great measure, restored to him a sort of parental control over these Works, he is naturally induced to give them to the press in a corrected, and, he ...
... course of the events which occasioned the disclosure of the Author's name having, in a great measure, restored to him a sort of parental control over these Works, he is naturally induced to give them to the press in a corrected, and, he ...
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... covering than one thin counterpane. When the reader is informed that I was at this time a growing youth, with the spirits, appetite, and impatience of fifteen, and suffered, of course, greatly under this severe regimen, which the.
... covering than one thin counterpane. When the reader is informed that I was at this time a growing youth, with the spirits, appetite, and impatience of fifteen, and suffered, of course, greatly under this severe regimen, which the.
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Walter Scott. suffered, of course, greatly under this severe regimen, which the repeated return of my disorder rendered indispensable, he will not be surprised that I was abandoned to my own discretion, so far as reading (my almost sole ...
Walter Scott. suffered, of course, greatly under this severe regimen, which the repeated return of my disorder rendered indispensable, he will not be surprised that I was abandoned to my own discretion, so far as reading (my almost sole ...
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... course of reading were imitated from recollections of my own. It must be understood that the resemblance extends no farther. Time, as it glided on, brought the blessings of confirmed health and personal strength, to a degree which had ...
... course of reading were imitated from recollections of my own. It must be understood that the resemblance extends no farther. Time, as it glided on, brought the blessings of confirmed health and personal strength, to a degree which had ...
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... course of printing, which, however, was declined, the Author not choosing to part with the copyright. The origin of the story of Waverley, and the particular facts on which it is founded, are given in the separate introduction prefixed ...
... course of printing, which, however, was declined, the Author not choosing to part with the copyright. The origin of the story of Waverley, and the particular facts on which it is founded, are given in the separate introduction prefixed ...
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