Walter Scott

The arrival of the shipwrecked captain, Cleveland, spoils young Mordaunt's relationship with the Troil girls, and soon a bitter rivalry grows between the two...

The Antiquary is about several characters including an antiquary: an amateur historian, archaeologist and collector of items of dubious antiquity. He is the...

The remarkable person, called by the title of Old Mortality, was we’ll known in Scotland about the end of the last century. His real name was Robert...

The story recounts the tragic love of Lucy Ashton and Edgar, Master of Ravenswood. Edgar's father was stripped of the title for supporting the deposed King...

The story takes place just before the Jacobite rising of 1715, with much of Scotland in turmoil. It is narrated by Frank Osbaldistone, the son of an English...

The Heart of Midlothian is often regarded as Scott's finest novel featuring Jeanie Deans, the first woman among Scott's protagonists, and also the first to...

Guy Mannering is set in the 1760s to 1780s, mostly in the Galloway area of southwest Scotland, but with episodes in Cumberland, Holland, and India. It tells...

Ivanhoe is the story of one of the remaining Saxon noble families at a time when the nobility in England was overwhelmingly Norman. It follows the Saxon...

Waverley is a historical novel and Sir Walter Scott's first venture into prose fiction. The novel considered as the first historical novel in the western...

The story recounts the tragic love of Lucy Ashton and Edgar, Master of Ravenswood. Edgar's father was stripped of the title for supporting the deposed King...

Origin of the general Opinions respecting Demonology among Mankind. The Belief in the Immortality of the Soul is the main inducement to credit its occasional...

The story is set just after the Union of Scotland and England, in the Liddesdale hills of the Scottish Borders, familiar to Scott from his work collecting...

The Lady of the Lake is a narrative poem tremendously influential, and serving as inspiration for the Highland Revival. It is composed of six cantos, each of...

During a truce between the Christian armies taking part in the third Crusade, and the infidel forces under Sultan Saladin, Sir Kenneth, on his way to Syria,...

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Waverley to piękna i romantyczna opowieść rozgrywająca się na tle wydarzeń 1745 roku w Szkocji – powstania szkockich jakobitów, czyli zwolenników zrzuconej...

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world's most renowned...

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world's most renowned...

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“Dziewica z Jeziora” znana również jako “Pani jeziora” to narracyjny poemat napisany przez Waltera Scotta. Poemat ten został opublikowana po...

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“Pieśń ostatniego minstrela” to wyjątkowy poemat napisany przez Waltera Scotta. Poemat składa się z sześciu pieśni i ilustruje zwyczaje oraz maniery,...