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Las famosas ruinas de Melrose, próximas a la residencia del autor, son el lugar en que se desarrolla la acción de esta novela, circunstancia que parece inexplicable, si se tiene en cuenta que empleó toda su habilidad en alejar de su país nativo a los personajes y las escenas de lvanhoe. Este cambio de sistema es hijo de sus recuerdos, por lo que juzga innecesario acudir al pasado para averiguar un hecho que no tiene importancia alguna.

Clásico de la literatura juvenil, en la colección Nuevo Auriga. Texto abreviado, para facilitar la lectura de los más jóvenes.

From Lands End to John OGroats, from Maine to Florida, from France to Russia, readers found Scotts novels irresistible. It was Waverley that may be considered as the instrument of that success - the historical novel, properly speaking, did not exist before Scott wrote it. In Waverley, his highly readable story of a romantic young man in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Scott blends realism and romance, the old world and the new, Enlightenment and Romanticism. Waverley stands ultimately for peace and stability, for social and political cohesion and harmony - qualities which may, consciously or unconsciously, account for its immense popularity.

Few novels can match Rob Roy for suspense and narrative daring, or in the swirl of colour of its characters. Scott's tour de force of family intrigue has two heroes. Francis Osbaldistone, dispatched in disgrace from London, joins his foxhunting cousins at their ancestral seat in Northumberland. His suspicions of villainous Rashleigh Osbaldistone, and the request of Diana Vernon, the cousin whom Francis loves, draw in Scott's other hero the brave, bitter Highlander and enigmatic outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor. Set on the eve of the Jacobite rising of 1715, Rob Roy (1817), in some ways the quintessential English-Scottish encounter, does not give up its secrets until the very last page.

Una nueva edición del clásico de Walter Scott.

Scott's most revered novel, written in 1791, is a love story set in the Middle Ages. The hero is a Saxon knight, Wilfred of Ivanhoe, whose personal chivalric code comes into conflict with the corruption of his arch-rival, the Knight Templar Brian de Bois-Guilbert. Ivanhoe is also torn between the woman to whom he is betrothed, Rowena, and a saintly young Jewish woman, Rebecca, who loves him. The cast of characters also includes Richard the Lionhearted, Robin Hood, and the fabled Black Knight.

The perfect tenses ¿ both present and past ¿ are explained and used prominently in most of these readers. Many introduce the passive voice, and most feature the future tense. Nearly all of them also include exercises to develop understanding of the first conditional, and some include instruction in all three conditional forms. More modal verbs and more complex verbal constructions ¿ using gerunds and infinitives ¿ are presented. There is a generally higher level of vocabulary, sometimes quite sophisticated. These readers focus on topics and vocabulary specific to contemporary professions: television production, fashion design and computerised banking. Business procedures and modern telecommunications are central to these stories. Also, these readers use an Upper Intermediate complexity of verb tenses and other grammatical constructions.

Airado por lo que consideraba una agresión contra la autonomía de su Escocia natal, integrada en el Reino Unido, Walter Scott escribió, en 1826, lo que algunos consideran el primer manifiesto del nacionalismo escocés moderno. Un proyecto de ley referido al sistema monetario le llevó a arremeter contra la actitud del gobierno de Londres, que cada vez respetaba menos los términos del Tratado de Unión firmado por Escocia e Inglaterra en 1707. Ésta es la primera traducción al castellano del ensayo.