Sir Walter Scott's classic novel Rob Roy is the story of two heroes, aristocratic Francis Osbaldistone and outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor. Set on the eve of the Jacobite rebellion, the story is one of intrigue, romance and suspicion.

Rob roy

Sir Henry Lee est le gardien de la Loge, lieu de legendes et de passages secrets, residence royale de Woodstock ou Henri II avait cache sa maitresse Rosemonde Clifford. Sir Henry est un anglican et un cavalier, un fervent partisan des Stuarts. Aussi s'oppose-t-il au mariage de sa fille Alice et de son neveu, le colonel Markham Everard, une tete ronde qui a combattu au cote de Cromwell.

Woodstock: ou Le Cavalier

Extrait: On croyait donc que les Anglais victorieux se montreraient bientôt sous les murs de la capitale; mais les soldats de Surrey avaient été réunis pour defendre leurs propres frontières, non pour envahir l'Écosse. Les vassaux de la couronne regagnerent donc leurs foyers des qu'ils eurent atteint le but pour lequel ils s'étaient mis en campagne. D'ailleurs malgré la victoire qu'ils avaient remporté une perte de quatre mille hommes au moins avait éclairci leurs rangs. Enfin l'absence de Henri VIII préserva l'Écosse des rigueurs qu'il aurait sans doute adoptées contre elle s'il avait vule royaume de son défunt beau-frère exposé par la dernière défaite à recevoir la loi d'un conquérant.

Histoire d'Écosse, Vol. 2

Les trois grands romans de Walter Scott, l'inventeur du roman historique.

Les brumes d'Ecosse, le galop des chevaux, le bruit des lances qui s'entrechoquent, le faste des tournois et la clameur des batailles.

Voici l'histoire de Wilfrid d'Ivanhoë qui revient des croisades reconquérir son fief et le cour de sa bien-aimée, voici les aventures de Quentin Durward, mercenaire écossais au service du roi Louis XI, voici enfin la rencontre en Terre Sainte, au cours d'une trêve, entre deux souverains, Richard Cour-de-Lion, l'Occidental fruste et rigide, et Saladin, l'Oriental raffiné et tolérant.

Le Moyen Age, sous la plume de Walter Scott, a les couleurs de la vie. Le souffle de l'épopée balaye ces trois grandes fresques où l'on croise Robin des Bois, Jean Sans Terre, Charles le Téméraire, Philippe Auguste et tant d'autres figures, illustres ou modestes, soldats et chevaliers, princesses et humbles servantes.

Préface et dossier de Claude Aziza

Romans de chevalerie - Ivanhoë, Quentin Durward, Le Talisman

Questa edizione contiene il romanzo di Walter Scott "La sposa di Lammermoor" e il libretto dell'opera di Gaetano Donizetti, "Lucia di Lammermoor. DAL LIBRO AL LIBRETTO -Ambientato negli anni del regno della regina Anna (1702-1714) e ispirato a fatti realmente accaduti, il romanzo di Walter Scott "La sposa di Lammermoor" racconta il tragico amore tra Lucy Ashton e il nemico giurato della sua famiglia, Edgar Ravenswood, sullo sfondo di una Scozia tormentata da lotte politiche e faide familiari. La trama è alla base dell'opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" di Gaetano Donizetti, su libretto di Salvatore Cammarano. L'opera andò in scena per la prima volta a Napoli nel 1835 ed è celebre in tutto il mondo soprattutto per la scena della follia: il momento in cui Lucia, innamorata di Edgardo ma obbligata a sposare il ricco Arturo, riappare durante la notte di nozze dopo aver ucciso lo sposo. Come il romanzo, anche l'opera è ricca di richiami gotici e tenebrosi: fonti maledette, apparizioni di fantasmi, torri in rovina e un cimitero dove Edgardo (ruolo tra i prediletti dai più grandi tenori, tra cui Caruso, Di Stefano, Domingo e Pavarotti), dopo aver appreso della morte di Lucia, si uccide. Reso immortale da stelle del calibro di Maria Callas e Joan Sutherland, il ruolo di Lucia costituisce un'ardua sfida anche per il più agguerrito dei soprani.

La sposa di Lammermoor -  Lucia di Lammermoor - Romanzo e libretto d'opera

The "Betrothed" did not greatly please one or two friends, who thought that it did not well correspond to the general title of "The Crusaders." They urged, therefore, that, without direct allusion to the manners of the Eastern tribes, and to the romantic conflicts of the period, the title of a "Tale of the Crusaders" would resemble the playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out. On the other hand, I felt the difficulty of giving a vivid picture of a part of the world with which I was almost totally unacquainted, unless by early recollections of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments; and not only did I labour under the incapacity of ignorance-in which, as far as regards Eastern manners, I was as thickly wrapped as an Egyptian in his fog-but my contemporaries were, many of them, as much enlightened upon the subject as if they had been inhabitants of the favoured land of Goshen. The love of travelling had pervaded all ranks, and carried the subjects of Britain into all quarters of the world. Greece, so attractive by its remains of art, by its struggles for freedom against a Mohammedan tyrant, by its very name, where every fountain had its classical legend-Palestine, endeared to the imagination by yet more sacred remembrances-had been of late surveyed by British eyes, and described by recent travellers.

The Talisman

What degree of communication might have existed between the human race and the inhabitants of the other world had our first parents kept the commands of the Creator, can only be subject of unavailing speculation. We do not, perhaps, presume too much when we suppose, with Milton, that one necessary consequence of eating the "fruit of that forbidden tree" was removing to a wider distance from celestial essences the beings who, although originally but a little lower than the angels, had, by their own crime, forfeited the gift of immortality, and degraded themselves into an inferior rank of creation.

Some communication between the spiritual world, by the union of those termed in Scripture "sons of God" and the daughters of Adam, still continued after the Fall, though their inter-alliance was not approved of by the Ruler of mankind. We are given to understand-darkly, indeed, but with as much certainty as we can be entitled to require-that the mixture between the two species of created beings was sinful on the part of both, and displeasing to the Almighty. It is probable, also, that the extreme longevity of the antediluvian mortals prevented their feeling sufficiently that they had brought themselves under the banner of Azrael, the angel of death, and removed to too great a distance the period between their crime and its punishment.

Demonology and Witchcraft

"Une sonnerie de trompettes retentit et les deux camps s'élancèrent l'un contre l'autre. Quand le nuage de poussière se fut dissipé, le public vit que la moitié des chevaliers étaient à terre."Retrouve les aventures d'Ivanhoé dans ce chef-d'ouvre de la littérature classique. Une version adaptée aux jeunes lecteurs et magnifiquement illustrée. Idéal pour les 8-12 ans.

Ivanhoé

Sous le règne d'elizabeth 1, amy robsart, une jeune fille à la grande beauté et à l'intégrité sans faille. épouse secrètement Robert Dudley. comte de Leicester. Mais Dudley. favori de la reine, craint de voir ce mariage réduire à néant ses belles aspirations d'élévation sociale. Déchiré entre l'amour - sincère - qu'il porte à amy, et son goût immodéré pour les fastes de la cour il ne mesure pas encore les forces que son mensonge vient de mettre en mouvement. Dans cette œuvre au romantisme échevelé. jamais rééditée en France depuis la fin du ytt` siècle. passion. ambition. manœuvres politiques et traîtrises gouvernent une cour élisabéthaine décadente e1 pourtant captivante.

Rob roy

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