Ivanhoé - Deuxième partie

The Talisman is Sir Walter Scott's tale of the Crusades -- a tale of chivalry, of violence, of virtue, romance, and deceit. In Scott's own words: ...the warlike character of Richard I, wild and generous, a pattern of chivalry, with all its extravagant virtues, and its no less absurd errors, was opposed to that of Saladin, in which the Christian and English monarch showed all the cruelty and violence of an Eastern sultan, and Saladin, on the other hand, displayed the deep policy and prudence of a European sovereign, whilst each contended which should excel the other in the knightly qualities of bravery and generosity. This singular contrast afforded, as the author conceived, materials for a work of fiction possessing peculiar interest.

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

This carefully crafted ebook: "Ivanhoe + Old Mortality (Illustrated): 2 Unabridged Classics" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Ivanhoe is a novel by Sir Walter Scott,  published in 1820. Set in late 12 century  England and in Palestine, follows the fortunes of the son of a noble Saxon family in Norman England. 
Old Mortality is a novel set in the period 1679-89 in south west Scotland. It forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the 1st series of Scott's Tales of My Landlord. The two novels were published together in 1816. Its central character, Henry Morton, joins the rebels in order to fight Scotland's royalist oppressors, little as he shares the Covenanters' extreme religious beliefs. He is torn between his love for a royalist's granddaughter and his loyalty to his downtrodden countrymen.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a prolific Scottish novelist, poet, historian, and biographer who is often considered both the inventor and the greatest practitioner of the historical novel.

Ivanhoe + Old Mortality (Illustrated): 2 Unabridged Classics

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

Ivanhoe (1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his first attempt to combine history and romance, which later influenced Victorian medievalism. Set at the time of the Norman Conquest, Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades to claim his inheritance and the love of Rowena and becomes involved in the struggle between Richard Coeur de Lion and his Norman brother John. The gripping narrative is structured by a series of conflicts: Saxon versus Norman, Christian versus Jew, men versus women, played out against Scott's unflinching moral realism.

Ivanhoé: D'après Le Roman De Walter Scott:  Roman

L'action se déroule en l'année 1651 durant la guerre civile anglaise. Charles II est en fuite après la bataille de Worcester. Sir Henry Lee est Garde de la Loge Royale de Woodstock et un ardent défenseur de la monarchie. Il s'oppose à l'union de sa fille Alice avec Markam Everard qui a pris parti pour le parlement de Cromwell. Everard est en mesure d'empêcher la mise sous séquestre de Woodstock grâce à son influence auprès de Cromwell qui espère en outre que le fugitif Charles II choisisse de s'y cacher. Charles en effet s'y réfugie déguisé en page du fils de Sir Henry...

Woodstock ou Le Cavalier

Extrait: Le fils de Dandie Dinmont répondit le campagnard sans se déconcerter. Pardieu, vous vous en souvenez, je crois, car ce n'est pas le plus mauvais de la bande, à ce qu'il me semble. Je suis de société avec lui dans la ferme, voyez-vous et je puis devenir quelque chose de plus, et prendre une petite part d'actions dans votre manufacture de livres.

Histoires du temps des croisades, Vol. 1: Tales of the Crusades

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           ''Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.''  Set just before the Jacobite Rising in 1715, Scott drew upon the political and economic struggles leading up to the rebellion and the tumultuous history of the Highlands in his classic adventure novel Rob Roy. Despite the book''s title, Frank Osbaldistone is the protagonist, travelling through England and the Scottish Highlands to collect a debt owed to his father by his cousin Rashleigh. On his journey he comes across the mysterious and striking Rob Roy, the infamous yet hunted outlaw. A story about justice, love and the harsh realities of 18th-century Highland life, Scott''s work is still viewed as the ultimate historical adventure novel.

Ivanhoé - Deuxième partie

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