The Monastery

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ReadHowYouWant.com, 2006 - 556 pages
The fundamental theme of the novel is the controversy between Catholic and Reformist faiths. The priestly community comes under menace from the new doctrines as the Protestant Reformation takes hold. Story revolves around the author's imaginary locality, abbey of Kennaquhair. The occult and the humorous are ingeniously amalgamated. "The Monastery" was one of the best selling books.
 

Table des matières

Chapter XIX
1
Chapter XXII
80
Chapter XXIII
99
Chapter XXIV
115
Chapter XXV
149
Chapter XXVI
178
Chapter XXVII
204
Chapter XXVIII
243
Chapter XXX
306
Chapter XXXI
327
Chapter XXXII
352
Chapter XXXIII
376
Chapter XXXIV
402
Chapter XXXV
433
Chapter XXXVI
457
Chapter XXXVII
491

Chapter XXIX
269

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À propos de l'auteur (2006)

Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on August 15, 1771. He began his literary career by writing metrical tales. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake made him the most popular poet of his day. Sixty-five hundred copies of The Lay of the Last Minstrel were sold in the first three years, a record sale for poetry. His other poems include The Vision of Don Roderick, Rokeby, and The Lord of the Isles. He then abandoned poetry for prose. In 1814, he anonymously published a historical novel, Waverly, or, Sixty Years Since, the first of the series known as the Waverley novels. He wrote 23 novels anonymously during the next 13 years. The first master of historical fiction, he wrote novels that are historical in background rather than in character: A fictitious person always holds the foreground. In their historical sequence, the Waverley novels range in setting from the year 1090, the time of the First Crusade, to 1700, the period covered in St. Roman's Well (1824), set in a Scottish watering place. His other works include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, and The Bride of Lammermoor. He died on September 21, 1832.

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