"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).
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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.
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THE close observers of vegetable nature have remarked, that when a new graft is taken from an aged tree, it possesses indeed in exterior form the appearance of a youthful shoot, but has in fact attained to the same state of maturity, or even decay, which has been reached by the parent stem. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Count Robert, Achilles Tatius, Count of Paris, Anna Comnena, Alexius Comnenus, Imperial Highness, Lady of the Broken Lances, Golden Gate, Nicephorus Briennius, Empress Irene, Godfrey of Bouillon, Grand Domestic, Countess Brenhilda, Sir Knight, Temple of the Muses, Count of Tholouse, Count of Vermandois, French Count, Princess of Zulichium, Achilles Tatins, Grecian Emperor, King of France, Lady Brenhilda, Robert Guiscard, Sir Count New!
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THE close observers of vegetable nature have remarked, that when a new graft is taken from an aged tree, it possesses indeed in exterior form the appearance of a youthful shoot, but has in fact attained to the same state of maturity, or even decay, which has been reached by the parent stem. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Count Robert, Achilles Tatius, Count of Paris, Anna Comnena, Alexius Comnenus, Imperial Highness, Lady of the Broken Lances, Golden Gate, Nicephorus Briennius, Empress Irene, Godfrey of Bouillon, Grand Domestic, Countess Brenhilda, Sir Knight, Temple of the Muses, Count of Tholouse, Count of Vermandois, French Count, Princess of Zulichium, Achilles Tatins, Grecian Emperor, King of France, Lady Brenhilda, Robert Guiscard, Sir Count New!
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