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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... hope, add greatly to the reader's interest and instruction in the reading of the novels and poems. Of the illustrations, which make the special feature of this edition, something more may be said. In the case of an author like Sir ...
... hope, add greatly to the reader's interest and instruction in the reading of the novels and poems. Of the illustrations, which make the special feature of this edition, something more may be said. In the case of an author like Sir ...
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... hope to emulate the rich humour, pathetic tenderness, and admirable tact which pervade the works of my accomplished friend, I felt that something might be attempted for my own country, of the same kind with that which Miss Edgeworth so ...
... hope to emulate the rich humour, pathetic tenderness, and admirable tact which pervade the works of my accomplished friend, I felt that something might be attempted for my own country, of the same kind with that which Miss Edgeworth so ...
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... hope that I might in time become free of the craft of romance-writing, and be esteemed a tolerable workman. In the year 1807-08 I undertook, at the request of John Murray, Esq., of Albemarle Street, to arrange for publication some ...
... hope that I might in time become free of the craft of romance-writing, and be esteemed a tolerable workman. In the year 1807-08 I undertook, at the request of John Murray, Esq., of Albemarle Street, to arrange for publication some ...
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... hope that ere its conclusion he should be distinguished as Sir Richard Waverley of Waverley-Honour, successor to a princely estate, and to extended political connections as head of the county interest in the shire where it lay. But this ...
... hope that ere its conclusion he should be distinguished as Sir Richard Waverley of Waverley-Honour, successor to a princely estate, and to extended political connections as head of the county interest in the shire where it lay. But this ...
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... hope of its revival depends upon you; therefore, as far as duty and honour will permit, avoid danger—I mean unnecessary danger—and keep no company with rakes, gamblers, and Whigs, of whom, it is to be feared, there are but too many in ...
... hope of its revival depends upon you; therefore, as far as duty and honour will permit, avoid danger—I mean unnecessary danger—and keep no company with rakes, gamblers, and Whigs, of whom, it is to be feared, there are but too many in ...
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