Sir Walter Scott

"Edward Waverley is a young, cultured man whose sensibilities lead to his involvement in the Jacobite Rising of 1745. In his journey into Scotland, down to Derby, and back up again he explores the cultural and political geography of Great Britain." "Waverley; or, 'tis Sixty Years Since was Scott's first novel, but like its final chapter, 'A Postscript, which should have been a Preface', it appears as one of the last in this series, so that the full weight of experience gained from editing Scott's fiction can be brought to understanding his most influential novel, the one which gave its name to the Waverley Novels. To this edition, P.D. Garside brings new insights and new information, and he establishes a text which is significantly different from its predecessors."--Jacket.

The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon -- A tradition of eighteen hundred and four / Thomas Hardy -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Michael / William Wordsworth -- To build a fire / Jack London -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- The signalman / Charles Dickens -- Come again in the spring / Richard Kennedy -- In my indolence / Italo Svevo -- Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Lochinvar / Sir Walter Scott -- The Griffin and the Minor Canon / Frank Stockton -- The elixir of Father Gaucher / Alphonse Daudet -- [Taste]( [Masque of the Red Death]( / Edgar Allan Poe -- The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov -- The Schartz-Metterklume method / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- A lodging for the night / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Canterville Ghost / Oscar Wilde.

A historical novel first published in 1817, this was one of the first popular novels to attempt the use of regional dialect, in this case both Scottish highland and lowland dialects with a glossary of Scottish words. The story is set immediately before the Jacobite Rising of 1715 and follows the narrator, an English merchant, to Scotland in pursuit of a debt. Here he encounters Rob Roy MacGregor, a larger-than-life character fighting for social justice for his kinsmen.

While England's Richard I fights in the crusades and his brother John consumes the riches at home, Matty, an accomplished falconer, seeks adventures with a group of friends, among them the future Robin Hood.

National Theatre, Washington, D.C., direction A.L. Erlanger Realty Corp. and W.H. Rapley, business management S.E. Cochran, third play of the American Theatre Society and Theatre Guild subscription season, the Theatre Guild presents "Mary of Scotland," a new play by Maxwell Anderson with Helen Hayes, Philip Merivale, Helen Menken, the production directed by Theresa Helburn, settings and costumes designed by Robert Edmond Jones.

Scott, Sir Walter. The two drovers. Wandering Willie's tale. Lamb, Charles. The witch aunt. Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The snow image. The threefold destiny. [Dr. Heidegger's experiment]( Howe's masquerade. Disraeli, Benjamin. Ixion in heaven. Poe, E.A. [Fall of the House of Usher]( [Pit and the Pendulum]( [Eleonora]( Gaskell, Elizabeth C. The squire's story. Brown, Dr. John. Rab and his friends. Dickens, Charles. The seven poor travellers. Trollope, Anthony. Malachi's cove. Meredith, George. The punishment of Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipil, the builder. White, W.H. Mr Whittaker's retirement. Morris, William. The story of the unknown church. Garnett, Richard. The dumb oracle. Harte, F.B. Miggles. Tennessee's partner. The Iliad of Sandy Bar. Mliss. Stevenson, R.L. Markheim. Thrawn Janet. Providence and the guitar. Gissing, George. Christopherson. Coleridge, Mary. The king is dead, long live the king. Crackenthorpe, Hubert. Saint-Pé.

Contains: The pardoners tale / Geoffrey Chaucer The prioresses tale / Geoffrey Chaucer The vision of Mirza / Joseph Addison The lingering expectation of an heir / Samuel Johnson Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott [Masque of the Red Death]( / Edgar Allan Poe The gold-bug / Edgar Allan Poe Ethan Brand / Nathaniel Hawthorne Rab and his friends / John Brown The sire ode Maletroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson On Greenhow Hill / Rudyard Kipling

Scott's response to Henry Drummond's 1884 work examining evolutionary theory from a religious viewpoint

xlvi, 467p. ; 20cm

"Set at the time of the Third Crusade (1189-92), The Betrothed is the first of Scott's Tales of the Crusaders, and although set in the Welsh Marches it is a crusading novel in that it is about those who stayed at home. The betrothed is Eveline, daughter of a Norman warrior, who is a victim of the Crusade in that her intended husband is required by the Church to fulfil his vow to take the Cross. He departs for three years. The full horror of an arranged marriage, and of being a 'prize' as men seek to gain possession of her is vividly realised - the heroine is never free; her fate is always determined by the agency of men." "The Betrothed is a problem novel in that it was deeply disliked by Scott's printer and publisher who forced significant changes. What Scott was required to do to meet their objections has been confronted for the first time in this, the first critical edition of the novel."--Jacket.