Setting the romantic rural Scotland of the late 17th century against the prosaic cities of Glasgow and London, this story paints a tragic portait of Rob Roy MacGregor. The feudal world of the Highlands withers away under the onslaught of new commercial and political realities.

For the most popular of his Scottish romances, published at the end of 1817, Scott drew on the legends and historical anecdotes about Rob Roy MacGregor he had collected in his youth. The famous outlaw is only one of a series of vivid characters who cast their spell of the novel's hero, Frank Osbaldistone, on his journey through the wild northern territories of the new United Ki...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Rob Roy is set in the north of England and Scotland in the years before, during and after the first Jacobite rising of 1715. Rob Roy is a swashbuckling chieftain of the Clan MacGregor who is forced to become an outlaw for his alleged espousal of the Jacobite cause.

Louis XIV aimait se rendre à son jardin fruitier et potager. Enrichi de plantes exotiques ou d’espèces plus communes par les expéditions botaniques devenues courantes au XVIIe siècle, le jardin royal, véritable laboratoire agronomique, était un modèle de curiosité. Il faisait l’admiration des cours européennes et fournissait des modèles vivants aux académiciens, dessinateurs et...(展开全部)

Louis XIV aimait se rendre à son jardin fruitier et potager. Enrichi de plantes exotiques ou d’espèces plus communes par les expéditions botaniques devenues courantes au XVIIe siècle, le jardin royal, véritable laboratoire agronomique, était un modèle de curiosité. Il faisait l’admiration des cours européennes et fournissait des modèles vivants aux académiciens, dessinateurs et...(展开全部)

Now a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn, and director Philip Haas (director of Angels and Insects). In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard...(展开全部)

In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats. There is her lover, Callum Finella,...(展开全部)

In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats. There is her lover, Callum Finella,...(展开全部)

Miss Jane Marple's passion for gossip leads to the investigation of a local man's murder. The victim was not liked in the least, and his death isn't raising eyebrows. But his recently revealed secrets are.

Now a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn, and director Philip Haas (director of Angels and Insects). In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard...(展开全部)