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.

Walker Evans, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's catalog to its current major retrospective, is a rock-solid work providing biographical, historical, and visual accounts of the artist's life and work. Hambourg, an assistant curator in the museum's Department of Photography, edited this big book with the straightforward approach that Evans employed in his art. Careful reproduction...(展开全部)

悲剧之后，人类最后的净土，将会走向何方？

悲剧之后，人类最后的净土，将会走向何方？

Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity time, vivid storytelling that illuminates an introspective young mind trying to make sense of everything around him. ‘Ragbone! Ragbone! Any rags! Pots for rags! Donkey stone!’ Joe looked up from his comic and lifted his eye patch. There was a white pony in the yard. It was harnessed to a...(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)