Quentin Durward (Unabridged). Walter Scott

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Название Quentin Durward (Unabridged)
Автор произведения Walter Scott
Жанр Языкознание
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       Walter Scott

      Quentin Durward

      (Unabridged)

      Historical Novel

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      2018 OK Publishing

      ISBN 978-80-272-4232-0

      Table of Contents

       Chapter I. THE CONTRAST

       Chapter II. THE WANDERER

       Chapter III. THE CASTLE

       Chapter IV. THE DEJEUNER

       Chapter V. THE MAN AT ARMS

       Chapter VI. THE BOHEMIANS

       Chapter VII. THE ENROLMENT

       Chapter VIII. THE ENVOY

       Chapter IX. THE BOAR HUNT

       Chapter X. THE SENTINEL

       Chapter XI. THE HALL OF ROLAND

       Chapter XII. THE POLITICIAN

       Chapter XIII. THE JOURNEY

       Chapter XIV. THE JOURNEY

       Chapter XV. THE GUIDE

       Chapter XVI. THE VAGRANT

       Chapter XVII. THE ESPIED SPY

       Chapter XVIII. PALMISTRY

       Chapter XIX. THE CITY

       Chapter XX. THE BILLET

       Chapter XXI. THE SACK

       Chapter XXII. THE REVELLERS

       Chapter XXIII. THE FLIGHT

       Chapter XXIV. THE SURRENDER

       Chapter XXV. THE UNBIDDEN GUEST

       Chapter XXVI. THE INTERVIEW

       Chapter XXVII. THE EXPLOSION

       Chapter XXVIII. UNCERTAINTY

       Chapter XXIX. RECRIMINATION

       Chapter XXX. UNCERTAINTY

       Chapter XXXI. THE INTERVIEW

       Chapter XXXII. THE INVESTIGATION

       Chapter XXXIII. THE HERALD

       Chapter XXXIV. THE EXECUTION

       Chapter XXXV. A PRIZE FOR HONOUR

       Chapter XXXVI. THE SALLY

       Chapter XXXVII. THE SALLY

      Chapter I.

       THE CONTRAST

       Table of Contents

      Look here upon this picture, and on this,

       The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.

      HAMLET

      The latter part of the fifteenth century prepared a train of future events that ended by raising France to that state of formidable power which has ever since been from time to time the principal object of jealousy to the other European nations. Before that period she had to struggle for her very existence with the English already possessed of her fairest provinces while the utmost exertions of her King, and the gallantry of her people, could scarcely protect the remainder from a foreign yoke. Nor was this her sole danger. The princes who possessed the grand fiefs of the crown, and, in particular, the Dukes of Burgundy and Bretagne, had come to wear their feudal bonds so lightly that they had no scruple in lifting the standard against their liege and sovereign lord, the King of France, on the slightest pretence. When at peace, they reigned as absolute princes in their own provinces; and the House of Burgundy, possessed of the district so called, together with the fairest and richest part of Flanders, was itself so wealthy, and so powerful, as to yield nothing to the crown, either in splendour or in strength.

      In imitation of the grand feudatories, each inferior vassal of the crown assumed as much independence as his distance from the sovereign power, the extent of his fief, or the strength of his chateau enabled him to maintain; and these petty tyrants, no longer amenable to the exercise of the law, perpetrated with impunity the wildest excesses of fantastic oppression and cruelty. In Auvergne alone, a report was made of more than three hundred of these independent nobles, to whom incest, murder, and rapine were the most ordinary and familiar actions.