A Week at Waterloo in 1815 - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1296902315 ISBN 13 : 9781296902315

Editeur : Sagwan Press, 2015

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. Many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature. Famous titles include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Old Mortality, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor. Although primarily remembered for his extensive literary works and his political engagement, Scott was an advocate, judge and legal administrator by profession, and throughout his career combined his writing and editing work with his daily occupation as Clerk of Session and Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The subject--a deathbed scene--might seem at first sight to be a trite and common one. The mise-en-sce--the Field of Waterloo--alone however redeems it from such a charge; and the principal actors play their part in no common-place or unrelieved tragedy. "Certainly," as Bacon says, "Vertue is like pretious Odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: For Prosperity doth best discover Vice; But Adversity doth best discover Vertue."

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Sagwan Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1296902315
• ISBN 13: 9781296902315
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 166