Sir Walter Scott

After ascending to the throne at a young age, and ruling Protestant subjects while personally practicing Catholicism, Mary, Queen of the Scots, was hardly given a chance to be an influential leader. Other rulers, and sometimes her own subjects, looked down on her for her religious differences. Which is why, Queen Mary's relatives, her Protestant subjects, and Lady Lochlevan locked her in Lochlevan castle at their first chance. Having been raised in...

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In eleventh-century Constantinople, the hero of Scott's next-to-last novel survives imperial political intrigue, a life-or-death struggle with a ruthless mercenary, the high demands of chivalry, and even a trap with a tiger, to join the First Crusade. Scott also explores the impact of emerging Western values on the Greco-Roman sophisticates of the Byzantine Empire.

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 come from the lower classes. While the heroine is idealised for her religious devotion and her moral rectitude, Scott nevertheless ridicules the moral certitude represented by the branch of Presbyterianism known as Cameronians, represented in the novel by Jeanie's father David.

There is so much within this novel, set in Switzerland during the Wars of the Roses in England. Quite complicated politics. (Goodreads)

This story first appeared in Scott's 1827 collection, Chronicles of the Canongate. The narrator tells the tale of a woman who is left a widow after her freebooting husband's murder by redcoats. She attempts to raise their son in his father's image-but as Scotland's splendor fades, her son makes plans of his own.

Extrait : "Il y a une belle église paroissiale dans la ville de Woodstock , – on me l'a dit du moins, car je ne l'ai jamais vue ; à peine, lorsque j'y allai, si j'eus le temps de visiter le magnifique château de Blenheim, ses salles décorées par la peinture, et les riches tapisseries de ses appartements."

Extrait "C'est le privilège des romanciers de placer le début de leur histoire dans une auberge, rendez-vous de tous les voyageurs, o règne la liberté, et o chacun déploie son humeur sans cérémonie et sans contrainte."

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