Sir Walter Scott's Waverley - formato ePub

Basándose en la mundialmente conocida tradición legendaria de héroes justicieros como Robin Hood, Walter Scott urdió la trama de Ivanhoe, situándola precisamente en el período histórico de Inglaterra...

Ivanhoe es hijo de sir Cedric, un caudillo sajón, cuyo deseo es restaurar el trono de Inglaterra en la estirpe sajona. Cedric cree que logrará su objetivo casando a su pupila, lady Rowena con Athelstane,...

El libro se desarrolla en el siglo XV durante el reinado de Luis XI de Francia y en pleno enfrentamiento con Carlos el temerario, duque de Borgoña. Quintín Durward es un joven escocés que busca fortuna...

El cuento sucede en un castillo de un rico terrateniente, a donde ha llegado sin así planearlo un viejo amigo, al que no veía hacia mucho, el general Browne, recién llegado de América, en donde había...

Un noble francés llamado Quintin Durward recibe la misión de ejercer como caballero protector de la bella dama Isabel, con la que su tío, el viejo Lord Crawford, pretende casarse con la colaboración política...

Woodstock, o Los caballeros: una historia del año 1661 (Woodstock, or The Cavalier. A tale of the year sixteen hundred and fifty-one) es una novela del escritor escocés Walter Scott, publicada en 1826....

Ivanhoe es hijo de sir Cedric, un caudillo sajón, cuyo deseo es restaurar el trono de Inglaterra en la estirpe sajona. Cedric cree que logrará su objetivo casando a su pupila, lady Rowena con Athelstane,...

Walter Scott. Las espectrales islas Shetland, en pleno mar del Norte, parecen el refugio ideal para dos hombres que huyen de su pasado. Mertoun y Cleveland, dos naúfragos, uno de la vida y el otro del...

En la Escocia de 1679, enfrentada entre partidarios del rey Carlos II y seguidores de la secta puritana de los covenanters, el asesinato de un arzobispo desata los hilos de una guerra civil largamente...

Como Wordsworth, Scott tuvo que crear el gusto para su obra. Descubrió que no hay romance como el romance de la vida real. Como escritor, trató de reconciliar para el lector todas las variedades de...

A su vuelta de Tierra Santa, Ivanhoe, hijo de un caudillo sajón, participa en el torneo que proclamará reina de la "belleza" a su amada lady Rowena. El joven resulta herido, pero vence a los caballeros...

La novela nos ubica en Escocia, durante el gobierno de la reina Ana I de Bretaña, entre 1702 y 1714. La trama relata los infortunios de un amor desgraciado entre Lucy Ashton y el enemigo de su familia,...

El talismán nos ubica dentro de la Tercera Cruzada, a veces conocida como Cruzada del Rey (Kings Crusade, ya que en ella participo nada menos que la estirpe de los Plantagenet, representada en la piel...

Ivanhoe es hijo de sir Cedric, un caudillo sajón, cuyo deseo es restaurar el trono de Inglaterra en la estirpe sajona. Cedric cree que logrará su objetivo casando a su pupila, lady Rowena con Athelstane,...

En el año 1187, el sultán Saladino destruyó al ejército del rey de Jerusalén, Guido de Lusignan, apoderándose de la ciudad santa y de todo el reino latino. Con este motivo se organizó la tercera cruzada,...

El pirata está a medio camino entre el drama costumbrista y la novela de aventuras. El capitán de un barco pirata llega a las islas Shetland (Escocia) y seduce a una noble, prometiéndole que se casará...

After years of being married to an overbearing wife and wading through life pretending to be half-dead, Gajanan Godbole has finally found himself alone and, most importantly, free. Courtesy COVID. Lucky...

A rollicking adventure from the Brontës' imagined kingdom of Verdopolis, The Secret is a tale of intrigue, lies, duplicity, and all-conquering love. It is accompanied by five other associated pieces,...

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It all starts with a fire. Seven children, asleep in a big house in the Italian countryside. A forgotten candle. Their parents are not there. They are in a different country, a different continent, Africa,...

A viciously funny and intelligently provocative play about family, friendship and faith, adapted by the author from his Pulitzer-finalist short story.Who in your life would you trust to keep you alive?...

When Daniel Leicester goes in search of his late wife's missing bicycle in the oppressive heat of a Bologna summer, he is transported to her final days. But as unfinished business bleeds - quite literally...

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Having been saved from execution at the hands of the Draoihn - powerful magic users Raine used to count as allies - Raine finds herself in the Fault, a vast magical wasteland, which is falling apart before...

Moidl is a farmer's daughter from the Hohenhauser Farm in Hintertux in the Zillertal region of Tyrol. Her close bonds with her family and the farm are her lifeblood, and the various blows they are dealt...

Three middle-class sixth-form girls leave their independent boarding school in the summer of 1918. They are told by their headmistress that their prospects of marriage have been reduced following the...

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