pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. THE Author, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occurring at a distant period, it might possibly be unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of the parties. But as he finds an account of the circumstances given in the Notes to Law's Memorials, by his ingenious friend, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq. , and also...

Laperouse is a concise yet richly documented account of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, the French navigator whose Pacific expedition became one of the great enigmas of eighteenth-century exploration. Scott writes in a lucid, disciplined historical style, balancing narrative movement with archival caution. Set against the age of Cook, Enlightenment science, imperial rivalry, and early European encounters with Australia, the book treats Lapérouse not as a romantic mystery alone...

In "Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia," Ernest Sir Scott meticulously chronicles the significant, yet often overlooked, French explorations of Australia during the 18th and 19th centuries. This scholarly work delves into a rich array of historical texts, personal narratives, and documents, highlighting the interactions between French explorers and Aboriginal communities. Scott's literary style is both analytical and descriptive, skillfully weaving t...

This the first,the classic, novelized medieval Romance. Written the same year as Queen Victorias birth, it gave us much of our modern conception of medieval tournaments, King John, Robin Hood, Richard Coeur de Lion, etc.If youve ever thought ok, that was cool as Robin Hood split an arrow with another arrow at the Great Archery Tournament, or wondered where the idea of Robin Hood as the defender of Saxon yeomanry against the Villainous John of Anjou, Regent for the absent Richard, g...

This is a great Scottish novel, with all of the lovely scenery and steadfast heroes desired in this type of book. Even a bit of the Gaelic! I love the tragic character of Helen McGregor, and the classic brutal honor of Robert Roy.The scottish scenary is a vital character. I read this book when I was living in Glasgow, and the descriptions of the citys early days were amazing. I also fell in love with Loch Lomand.Francis Osbaldistone forgoes a position in his fathers firm to...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Lady of the Lake.This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Sir Walter Scott, which is now, at last, again available to you.Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Lady of the Lake:When I edited some of Grays poems several years ago, I found that they had not been correctly prin...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. 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 chara...

Thus communed these; while to their lowly dome, The full-fed swine return'd with evening home; Compell'd, reluctant, to the several sties, With din obstreperous, and ungrateful cries. Pope's Odyssey.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The Novel or Romance of WAVERLEY made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded; but to which, i...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The plan of this Edition leads me to insert in this place some account of the incidents on which the Novel of WAVERLEY is founded. They have been already given to the public, by my late lamented friend, William Erskine, Esq. (afterwards Lord Kinneder), when reviewing the 'Tales of My Landlord' for the QUARTERLY REVIEW, in 1817. The particulars were derived by the Critic from the Author's information. Af...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. From what is said in the Introduction to the Monastery, it must necessarily be inferred, that the Author considered that romance as something very like a failure. It is true, the booksellers did not complain of the sale, because, unless on very felicitous occasions, or on those which are equally the reverse, literary popularity is not gained or lost by a single publication. Leisure must be allowed for t...

The Jacobite enthusiasm of the eighteenth century, particularly during the rebellion of 1745, afforded a theme, perhaps the finest that could be selected for fictitious composition, founded upon real or probable incident. This civil war and its remarkable events were remembered by the existing generation without any degree of the bitterness of spirit which seldom fails to attend internal dissension