Count Robert of Paris, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Count Robert of Paris, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) PDF full book. Access full book title Count Robert of Paris, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) by Walter Scott. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Walter Scott Publisher: ISBN: 9781332797110 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 438
Book Description
Excerpt from Count Robert of Paris, Vol. 1 Criticism has very little to do with Count Robert of Paris. The wonderful mental and bodily strength of Scott had been undermined before he wrote the tale and broke down as he was in the course of writing it. The romance is not a work of his normal self: ashes, indeed, there come of the old brightness, but we may almost go so far as to say that the book is not Scott's, not the work of the Scott we knew. For prao tical purposes, and even for some literary purposes, his mind was still available, but not for the purpose of serious imaginative composition. At furthest we may say that, if Scott, in these circumstances, could not write like himself, perhaps no other man could have written at all. The Editor has examined the manu script of the Reliquiae Trotcosienses, an anecdotic and historical catalogue of the Abbotsford collection, attempted by Scott as a relief from the labour of the novel. It is sadly evident that neither mentally nor bodily was he fit, at this time, for the toil of composi tion. But there was to be no rest for Sir Walter, except in the woollen.' He struggled on at his impos sible and honourable task. It is the character, the indomitable courage of the man which we are called on to applaud: literary criticisms were misapplied and out of place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author: Walter Scott Publisher: ISBN: 9781332797110 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 438
Book Description
Excerpt from Count Robert of Paris, Vol. 1 Criticism has very little to do with Count Robert of Paris. The wonderful mental and bodily strength of Scott had been undermined before he wrote the tale and broke down as he was in the course of writing it. The romance is not a work of his normal self: ashes, indeed, there come of the old brightness, but we may almost go so far as to say that the book is not Scott's, not the work of the Scott we knew. For prao tical purposes, and even for some literary purposes, his mind was still available, but not for the purpose of serious imaginative composition. At furthest we may say that, if Scott, in these circumstances, could not write like himself, perhaps no other man could have written at all. The Editor has examined the manu script of the Reliquiae Trotcosienses, an anecdotic and historical catalogue of the Abbotsford collection, attempted by Scott as a relief from the labour of the novel. It is sadly evident that neither mentally nor bodily was he fit, at this time, for the toil of composi tion. But there was to be no rest for Sir Walter, except in the woollen.' He struggled on at his impos sible and honourable task. It is the character, the indomitable courage of the man which we are called on to applaud: literary criticisms were misapplied and out of place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author: HardPress Publisher: Hardpress Publishing ISBN: 9781313653480 Category : Languages : en Pages : 312
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author: Walter Scott Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781721810475 Category : Languages : en Pages : 520
Book Description
Count Robert of Paris Volume 1 By Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott was a master of diverse talents. He was a man of letters, a dedicated historian and historiographer, a well-read translator of foreign texts, and a talented poet. Deriving most of his material from his native Scotland, its history and its legends, Scott invented and mastered what we know today as the historical novel. Count Robert is set during the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Alexius Comnenus and focuses on the arrival of the first Crusaders. During the oath-taking ceremony on the eve of the Crusade, the haughty Count Robert insults the Emperor by seating himself on the imperial throne. Also offended is Robert's friend Hereward, a Saxon member of the Varangian guard, exiled from England after the Norman Conquest. When the Crusaders leave Byzance for Asia, Robert is drugged and detained as captive. His Amazonian wife, Brenhilda is held separately and persecuted by the enamored Nicephorus Briennus, the emperor's son-in-law. Brenhilda challenges Nicephorus to combat, promising to give herself to him if defeated. In the meantime, Robert is freed by Hereward, and presents himself at the duel in his wife's stead. Nicephorus, though, does not appear as he has been arrested following the discovery of a plot to usurp Alexius. Still keen to avenge Robert's affront to the Emperor, Hereward takes his place. Robert defeats him but spares his life in gratitude for his earlier help. Hereward follows Robert to Palestine as a vassal, after discovering that his lost Saxon love Bertha is Brenhilda's waiting-woman. Through Robert's influence, a portion of Hereward's English property is restored to him. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author: Emile Zola Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780266711049 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 394
Book Description
Excerpt from Paris, Vol. 1 Rome. Whilst recounting the struggles and fate tering largely into the problem of Capital and Labour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Walter Scott Publisher: Classic Books Company ISBN: 0742652785 Category : Languages : en Pages : 486
Book Description
"By our Lady of the Broken Lances," said the Crusader. "I would not that the Turks were more coureous than they are Christian, and am well pleased that unbeliever and heathen hound are a proper description for the best of them..." -from Count Robert of Paris They were the literary phenomenon of their time: The Waverly novels, 48 volumes set in fanciful re-creations of the Scottish Highlands (and other lands) of centuries past, published between 1814 and 1831 and devoured by a reading public hungry for these sweeping, interconnected melodramas. The series popularized historical fiction, though they're also abundant in astute political and social commentary. Count Robert of Paris, Volume 46 of Waverly, is part of the fourth and final series in Scott's Tales of My Landlord. Ranging over the Near East, this is a tale of adventure and romance set during the first Crusades in the late 11th century. Scottish novelist and poet SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832), a literary hero of his native land, turned to writing only when his law practice and printing business foundered. Among his most beloved works are The Lady of the Lake (1810), Rob Roy (1818), and Ivanhoe (Waverly Vols. 16 and 17) (1820).
Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781390973112 Category : Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
Excerpt from Paris, or the Book of the Hundred-and-One, Vol. 1 of 2 Occasionally, and where the translator thought that others, from congeniality of taste and feeling, might better catch and transfer the peculiar spirit of the original, he requested, and has received, the support of literary friends whose names would do honour to the publication, if he were at liberty to mention them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Walter Scott
Author: Walter Scott
Author: HardPress
Author: Walter Scott
Author: Emile Zola
Author: Walter Scott
Author: 
Author: 
Author: Rose Arny
Author: 
Author: