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The story opens dramatically with the repercussions of the murder of the Archbishop of St.Andrews by a group of "Covenanting Whigs" and spans ten years of tumult: from the defeat of John Graham of Claverhouse by the covenanters at Drumclog, and the victory of the Duke of Monmouth over the Covenanters at Bothwell Bridge, to the aftermath of the batle at Killiecrankie in 1689.

Jeanie Deans, a dairymaid, decides she must walk to London to gain an audience with the Queen. Her sister is to be executed for infanticide and, while refusing to lie to help her case, Jeanie is desperate for a reprieve. Set in the 1730s in a Scotland uneasily united with England, The Heart of Mid-Lothian dramatizes different kinds of justice—that meted out by the Edinburgh mob in the lynching of Captain Porteous, and that encountered by a terrified young girl suspected of killing her baby. Based on an anonymous letter Scot received in 1817, this is the seventh and finest of Scott's "Waverley" novels. It was an international bestseller and inspired succeeding novelists from Balzac to George Eliot. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

This is a story of national change and personal tragedy. For Lucy Ashton and Edgar Ravenswood, acts of heroism are thwarted and love is doomed by social, political and historical division. This edition restores the action to the years of uncertainty and political flux before the Union of Scotland and England in 1707, rather than after, as Scott's later revision had placed it. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

This Halcyon Classics ebook edition contains what are often considered to be the best of Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott's work. Along with classic novels like 'Ivanhoe,' this collection also contains his epic poems 'Marmion' and 'The Lady of the Lake.' Includes an active table of contents. Contents: Waverley Rob Roy Ivanhoe The Bride of Lammermoor The Heart of Mid-Lothian Marmion The Lady of the Lake This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.

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Paru en 1831, "Le château dangereux" est un roman historique de l’auteur écossais Sir Walter Scott, son dernier roman, pour un ultime voyage à travers l’Écosse. Inspiré d'un fait authentique, le récit se déroule en Écosse, dans le South Lanarkshire, durant la Première Guerre d’indépendance de l’Écosse. En 1306, le château de Douglas est défendu par sir John de Walton, assisté du jeune chevalier Aymer de Valence. Ils sont partisans du roi d’Angleterre, contre les forces commandées par Robert Bruce et sir James Douglas. Une noble et belle Anglaise, Augusta de Berkeley, promet sa fortune et sa main au chevalier qui tiendra le château un an et un jour. La dame, qui s'était réfugiée au château sous un déguisement, court le risque d’être traitée d’espionne par sir John. Elle est capturée par Douglas qui propose à sir John de l’échanger moyennant la reddition du château. Sir John est cruellement embarrassé lorsque survient heureusement l'ordre de rendre la place. Augusta de Berkeley sera quant à elle rendue à son amant... Emprisonnements, combats, évasions, grimoires, fantômes, chevaliers sortis du brouillard… Voici le Moyen Âge flamboyant vu par Walter Scott ! Il y exalte un idéal chevaleresque et restitue avec une remarquable authenticité l’esprit et l’âme des Highlands en dépeignant la nature profonde de l’Écosse et de son peuple.

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As Hobbie Elliot and Patrick Earnscliff went across the Liddesdale hills of the Scottish Borders, going to Hobbies home, the moon suddenly revealed the figure of a human dwarf, who, on being spoken to, refused their offers of assistance. Next morning Hobbie and Earnscliff went to confront the strange being by daylight; and having helped him in collecting stones for constructing a hut, they supplied him with food and other necessaries. In a short time he had completed his dwelling, and became known to the neighbors as Elshender the Recluse. From that point on, Elshie, a loner goat shepherd, regarded by the locals as being in league with the Devil becomes embroiled in a complex tale of love, revenge, betrayal, Jacobite schemes and a threatened forced marriage.