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  • Morocco That Was

    by Walter Harris ...
    Until 1912 Morocco had never suffered foreign domination, and its mountainous interior was as closed to foreigners as Tibet. Walter Harris was the exception. He lived in the country for more than thirty-five years, and as The Times correspondant he observed every aspect of its life. He describes the unfettered Sultanate in all its dark, melodramatic splendour. Harris was an intimate of at least ... Read more

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  • A Journey Through the Yemen and Some General Remarks Upon that Country

    by Walter Harris ...
    The Yemen may be described as forming the south-west corner of Arabia. So little is known of the geography of the interior, and to such a slight extent do even the natives define the boundaries between their own land and the surrounding provinces, that any exact description of the country is impossible. The same may be said of nearly all oriental frontiers, except where, taking an example from ... Read more

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  • Heroes of the Scottish Highlands: Ivanhoe, Waverley and Rob Roy (3 Unabridged Illustrated Classics) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Saxon honor, Jacobite uprising, and Highland adventure

    by Walter Scott, Harris Westbyrne ...
    Heroes of the Scottish Highlands brings together three unabridged illustrated classics—Ivanhoe, Waverley, and Rob Roy—through which Walter Scott helped define the historical novel. Moving from medieval England to the Jacobite conflicts of eighteenth-century Scotland, these narratives combine romance, political conflict, antiquarian detail, and vividly staged adventure. Scott's prose balances ... Read more

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  • The Black Dwarf (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Historical Novel

    by Walter Scott, Harris Westbyrne ...
    Set amid the rugged Scottish Borders in the uneasy years following the 1707 Union, The Black Dwarf combines historical romance, Gothic mystery, and regional realism. Its enigmatic central figure, the embittered recluse Elshie of the Mucklestane Moor, presides over a plot of threatened inheritance, concealed identity, and Jacobite intrigue. Scott's prose mingles antiquarian precision with vigorous ... Read more

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  • The Antiquary (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Historical Novel

    by Walter Scott, Harris Westbyrne ...
    Set on the northeastern coast of Scotland in the late eighteenth century, The Antiquary is at once a comic novel of manners, a romance of hidden lineage, and a meditation on the uses and abuses of historical memory. Through the figure of Jonathan Oldbuck, Scott satirizes pedantic antiquarianism while also honoring the impulse to recover the past. Its richly textured dialogue, Scots idiom, Gothic ... Read more

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  • The Fortunes of Nigel (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Historical Novel

    by Walter Scott, Harris Westbyrne ...
    Set in the uneasy brilliance of Jacobean London, The Fortunes of Nigel follows Nigel Olifaunt, a young Scottish nobleman seeking redress at the court of James I, where debt, patronage, intrigue, and national prejudice shape his fate. Scott blends historical romance with urban comedy, moving from royal chambers to taverns, prisons, and mercantile households. The novel belongs to the Waverley ... Read more

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  • The Complete Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott: Chronicles of the Canongate, The Keepsake Stories, The Highland Widow, The Tapestried Chamber, Halidon Hill, Auchindrane and many more (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. From the Great Scottish Writer, Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Anne of Geierstein, The Betrothed and The Talisman

    by Walter Scott, Harris Westbyrne ...
    This collection gathers the shorter fiction and dramatic-historical pieces of Sir Walter Scott, from the framed narratives of Chronicles of the Canongate to uncanny tales such as "The Tapestried Chamber" and the tragic Highland world of "The Highland Widow." Written in a richly allusive, antiquarian style, these works compress the concerns of the Waverley novels—memory, inheritance, clan loyalty, ... Read more

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  • The Bride of Lammermoor (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Historical Novel

    by Walter Scott, Harris Westbyrne ...
    Published in 1819 as part of the third series of Tales of My Landlord, The Bride of Lammermoor is among Walter Scott's darkest historical romances. Set amid the political and legal upheavals of post-Revolution Scotland, it recounts the doomed love of Edgar Ravenswood and Lucy Ashton, whose families are divided by dispossession, ambition, and inherited enmity. Scott fuses Gothic atmosphere with ... Read more

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  • Waverly (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Historical Novel

    by Walter Scott, Harris Westbyrne ...
    Walter Scott's Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since is a foundational historical novel that dramatizes the Jacobite rising of 1745 through the uncertain loyalties of Edward Waverley, an English gentleman drawn into Highland culture and rebellion. Blending romance, political reflection, antiquarian detail, and ironic narration, the novel establishes a new literary mode: history rendered through ... Read more

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  • The Complete Novels of Sir Walter Scott (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Waverley Novels complete—from Waverley and Rob Roy to Ivanhoe—with essays by Hugo & Dickens (Illustrated Edition)

    by Walter Scott, Harris Westbyrne ...
    The Complete Novels of Sir Walter Scott gathers the Waverley Novels, from Waverley and Rob Roy to Ivanhoe, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, and The Bride of Lammermoor, presenting a vast imaginative history of Scotland, England, and continental Europe. Scott's prose combines antiquarian learning, romance, social comedy, and political reflection; his narratives helped establish the historical novel as a ... Read more

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  • Tales of the Crusaders: The Betrothed & The Talisman (Illustrated) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Medieval romance and royal intrigue from the Welsh Marches to the Third Crusade

    by Walter Scott, Harris Westbyrne ...
    Tales of the Crusaders brings together two of Walter Scott's late Waverley novels, The Betrothed and The Talisman, in a diptych of medieval romance, chivalric politics, and cultural encounter. Moving from the embattled Welsh Marches to the camps of the Third Crusade, Scott blends antiquarian detail, melodramatic plotting, and moralized adventure within the nineteenth-century historical novel's ... Read more

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  • Unpacking My Library

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Translated by Harry Zohn ...
    Series series ERIS gems
    “I fully realize that my discussion of the mental climate of collecting will confirm many of you in your conviction that this passion is behind the times, in your distrust of the collector type. Nothing is further from my mind than to shake either your conviction or your distrust.”Walter Benjamin was one of the great cultural critics of the twentieth century. In Unpacking My Library he offers a ... Read more

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