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1) Ivanhoe
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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's classic tale set in England in the Middle Ages.
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Language
English
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This 1915 edition of a collection of critical writings by the heralded English writer includes "The Journal of Sir Walter Scott," "Beaumont and Fletcher," "Social Verse," "Wilkie Collins," "Whitmania," "Tennyson or Darwin?", Eight articles on "The Posthumous Works of Victor Hugo," "Recollections of Professor Jowett," "John Webster," "Robert Herrick," and others. Swinburne makes his point in each essay, not seeming to care who he offends.
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English
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"Winner of the 2008 Saltire Society/National Library of Scotland Research Book of the Year Award" Ian Duncan is professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel and the coeditor of Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism.
Scott's Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh...
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Works volume 22
Language
English
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When Washington Irving returned to America after seventeen years abroad, he headed west on a surveying mission deep into Native American territory. Irving, as Crayon, is a careful observer of the great range of human life, his skills evident in A Crayon Miscellany, a collection of sketches about his experiences on the frontier.
12) Sir Walter Scott
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English men of letters volume 6; ed. by John Morley
Language
English
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Canongate classics volume 87
Language
English
Description
Regarded by many as Scott's greatest work, this diary gives an extraordinary day-to-day account of the last six years of his life, years of financial ruin, bereavement, and increasing ill health. Scott emerges, not simply as a great writer, but as an almost heroic figure whose generosity and even temper shine through at all times.