Waverley Or Tis Sixty Years SincePhoemixx Classics Ebooks, 4 oct 2021 - 888 páginas Waverley Or Tis Sixty Years Since Walter Scott - Waverley Or 'Tis Sixty Years Since is a historical novel by Walter Scott (17711832). Scott was already famous as a poet, and chose to publish it anonymously in 1814 as his first venture into prose fiction. It is often regarded as one of the first historical novels in the Western tradition.Edward Waverley, an English gentleman of honour, chooses an occupation in the army at the time just before the Jacobite uprising of 1745 on advice of his father. He has an officer's commission. On leave from army training, he visits friends of his family in Scotland, as he is not far from their place. He enjoys their Scottish hospitality. His head is full of the romantic notions of his unstructured education, including much reading, and he is startled to find himself in the midst of loyalists who support the return of the House of Stuart and the Stuart prince, known as Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Young Chevalier to his supporters and as the Younger Pretender to his foes. His honour is often challenged as others interfere to push him to the Stuart side, where he is in battle, and he meets two women with whom he falls in love in turn, until he chooses one. His gentlemanly actions gain him friends in this precarious situation, on both sides of the uprising, who stand him in good stead when he is at risk from his own government when the uprising is put down.Scott chose to publish his later novels as being "by the author of Waverley". His series of works on similar themes written during the same period have become collectively known as the "Waverley Novels". The novel was well-received by contemporary critics, and well-liked by those who purchased novels in the early 19th century. It has continued in favour with later critics. |
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... direction applies.] I must refer to a very early period of my life, were I to point out my first achievements as a tale-teller; but I believe some of my old schoolfellows can still bear witness that I had GENERAL PREFACE TO THE ...
... direction applies.] I must refer to a very early period of my life, were I to point out my first achievements as a tale-teller; but I believe some of my old schoolfellows can still bear witness that I had GENERAL PREFACE TO THE ...
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... believe, by the celebrated Allan Ramsay, which, besides containing a most respectable collection of books of every description, was, as might have been expected, peculiarly rich in works of fiction. It exhibited specimens of every kind ...
... believe, by the celebrated Allan Ramsay, which, besides containing a most respectable collection of books of every description, was, as might have been expected, peculiarly rich in works of fiction. It exhibited specimens of every kind ...
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... believe they were all morally convinced of it. But while I was myself silent, their belief could not weigh much more with the world than that of others; their opinions and reasoning were liable to be taxed with partiality, or confronted ...
... believe they were all morally convinced of it. But while I was myself silent, their belief could not weigh much more with the world than that of others; their opinions and reasoning were liable to be taxed with partiality, or confronted ...
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... believe, wrote a single line of the projected work; and I only have the melancholy pleasure of preserving in the Appendix[*] the simple anecdote on which he proposed to found it. [* See Appendix, No. III.] To this I may add, I can ...
... believe, wrote a single line of the projected work; and I only have the melancholy pleasure of preserving in the Appendix[*] the simple anecdote on which he proposed to found it. [* See Appendix, No. III.] To this I may add, I can ...
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... believe the bailiff in ' The Goodnatured Man ' is not far wrong when he says : ' One man has one way of expressing himself , and another another ; and that is all the difference between them . " " The difference between Scott and ...
... believe the bailiff in ' The Goodnatured Man ' is not far wrong when he says : ' One man has one way of expressing himself , and another another ; and that is all the difference between them . " " The difference between Scott and ...
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