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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... 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 A CREAGH, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ...
... 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 A CREAGH, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ...
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... father might find it. Invernahyle supported life for several weeks by means of these precarious supplies; and, as he had been wounded in the battle of Culloden, the hardships which he endured were aggravated by great bodily pain. After ...
... father might find it. Invernahyle supported life for several weeks by means of these precarious supplies; and, as he had been wounded in the battle of Culloden, the hardships which he endured were aggravated by great bodily pain. After ...
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... father, leaves it to the candour of the public to choose among the many circumstances peculiar to different situations in life such as may induce him to suppress his name on the present occasion. He may be a writer new to publication ...
... father, leaves it to the candour of the public to choose among the many circumstances peculiar to different situations in life such as may induce him to suppress his name on the present occasion. He may be a writer new to publication ...
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... father of our hero. Sir Everard had inherited from his sires the whole train of Tory or High-Church predilections and prejudices which had distinguished the house of Waverley since the Great Civil War. Richard, on the contrary, who was ...
... father of our hero. Sir Everard had inherited from his sires the whole train of Tory or High-Church predilections and prejudices which had distinguished the house of Waverley since the Great Civil War. Richard, on the contrary, who was ...
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... father of six unmarried and accomplished daughters. Sir Everard's reception in this family was, as it may be easily conceived, sufficiently favourable; but of the six young ladies, his taste unfortunately determined him in favour of ...
... father of six unmarried and accomplished daughters. Sir Everard's reception in this family was, as it may be easily conceived, sufficiently favourable; but of the six young ladies, his taste unfortunately determined him in favour of ...
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