Direction le Moyen Age : parti combattre en Terre sainte, le roi d'Angleterre -- Richard Coeur de Lion -- disparaît mystérieusement. Son fidèle chevalier, Ivanhoé, part donc à sa recherche. Grâce aux titres de la collection "Harrap's school", les élèves de collège peuvent commencer à lire en VO tous les grands classiques de la littérature anglo-saxonne. Le texte en anglais est adapté aux niveaux des collégiens et revu par des enseignants. Il est également enrichi de belles illustrations, d'un lexique en fin d'ouvrage pour aider à la compréhension de l'intrigue et d'une version audio pour s'imprégner du bon accent dès le collège et de fiches pédagogiques téléchargeables pour favoriser l'étude en classe. Lire en anglais ? C'est facile et plaisant avec Harrap's.
Biographical noteWalter Scott (1771-1832) was born and educated in Edinburgh. His most famous novels include Waverley, Ivanhoe and Guy Mannering, but he first made his name as a poet. Scott was one of the best-selling novelists of the nineteenth century and is credited with establishing the historical novel.Claire Lamont is Professor of English Romantic Literature at University of Newcastle and series editor for Walter Scott in Penguin Classics.Peter Garside is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.Ian Duncan is Professor of English at Berkeley. His most recent book is Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh. Main descriptionThe first romantic historical novel and international bestseller, Waverley (1814) tells the story of Edward Waverley, a naïve, sensitive young man who is posted to Scotland with his regiment, and becomes caught between the clans of the Jacobite Rising and the forces of the Hanoverian regime. He must decide whether he will follow the civilization he has always known, or be drawn into an older world of honour and loyalty - and must also choose between the quiet, constant Rose, and the passionate, principled Flora.
Sir Walter Scott's classic novel Rob Roy is the story of two heroes, aristocratic Francis Osbaldistone and outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor. Set on the eve of the Jacobite rebellion, the story is one of intrigue, romance and suspicion.
Biographical noteBorn and educated in Edinburgh, Walter Scott (1771-1832) is credited with establishing the form of the historical novel.Claire Lamont is Professor of English Romantic Literature at University of Newcastle and series editor for Walter Scott in Penguin Classics.P. D. Garside (editor) is Reader in English at University of Wales, Cardiff.Jane Millgate is Professor of English at Victoria College, University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Walter Scott: The Making of the Novelist. Main descriptionGuy Mannering is an astrologer who only half-believes in his art. Instead he places his faith in patriarchal power, wealth and social position. But the Scotland of this novel is a nation in which the old hierarchies are breaking down and Guy must learn the limits of the nabob's authority in a society in which each social group - from gypsies and smugglers, to Edinburgh lawyers, landowners and Border store farmers - lives by its own laws.
Walter SCOTT (1771-1832). The Tapestried Chamber, La chambre tapissée, Un général anglais, de retour d'Amérique après la guerre d'indépendance, retrouve par hasard un ancien condisciple d'Eton qui l'invite à passer une semaine dans son château. Mais dès le lendemain de leur rencontre, le général déclare devoir reprendre la route. Que s'est-il passé au cours de la nuit dans cette chambre qui avait longtemps été condamnée? Washington IRVING(1783-1859). The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, La légende de Sleepy Hollow. Un amoureux éconduit rentre chez lui nuitamment en traversant une vallée que les légendes locales disent hantée. Un étrange cavalier surgit à ses côtés... Bram STOKER(1847-1912).The Judge's House, La maison du juge. Un étudiant cherche un endroit calme pour s'isoler et préparer ses examens. II trouve à louer une maison ayant jadis appartenu à un juge connu pour sa dureté et responsable de nombreuses condamnations à mort. Le portrait du juge et la corde ayant servi aux exécutions sont toujours dans la pièce principale, où grouillent des rats inquiétants. L'étudiant pourra-t-il résister à l'atmosphère délétère qui règne en ces lieux ?
Edition bilingue. Ce récit est extrait des Chroniques de Canongate (1827). Le souvenir collectif de la bataille de Culloden en Ecosse (1746) et de sa longue et terrible répression par l'armée anglaise hante littéralement la Veuve, survivante d'un clan aristocratique, réfugiée à l'abandon dans une misérable cabane.
Au xiie siècle, Cédric de Rotherwood, dit le Saxon, un thane (ou vavasseur, pour les Normands) nostalgique de l'Angleterre saxonne vaincue en 1066, rêve de rétablir sur le trône de l'Angleterre un monarque autochtone en la personne d'Athelstane de Coningsburgh, un voisin, descendant des derniers rois saxons. Dans ce but, il envisage de l'unir avec sa pupille, Lady Rowena de Hargottstandstede, princesse saxonne descendant du roi Alfred.
Walter Tandy Murch (1907 1967) is best known for his enigmatic, dreamlike still life paintings of everyday objects and mechanical devices in a style that falls between Magic Realist, Surrealist, and Realist. This volume offers the most comprehensive collection of his work, including his striking commercial work for magazines and his paintings from the extensive collection of George Lucas. Lucas calls himself a fanboy of Murch s art paintings and drawings he describes as simultaneously functional and dreamy, simple and complicated; they are quiet yet grab your attention. The tension of these opposing reactions draws viewers into Murch s still lifes, which caught the attention of famed art dealer Betty Parsons, who also represented artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly, and Agnes Martin. Murch showed his work at Parsons s gallery for nearly thirty years. With illuminating essays and extensive plates sections displaying Murch s works, this celebration of an exceptionally talented and visionary artist is long overdue.
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Wilfred of Ivanhoe is a Saxon loyal to the Norman king Richard I. Because of this loyalty, and his love for Lady Rowena, Ivanhoe is cast out by his father, a Saxon loyalist determined to liberate the Saxon people from Norman rule. He plans to marry Rowena, his ward and a descendant of the Saxon king Alfred, to Lord Aethelstane, pretender to the throne of England. In so doing, Ivanhoe would unite two rival Saxon houses in their claim for the crown. Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades in secret and is joined in his plans to re-establish Richard on the thrown by the moneylender Isaac of York, his daughter Rebecca, the mysterious Black Knight, Lady Rowena, and Robin Hood and his merry men.
