Sir Walter Scott

Now if to these were added the diverse reall phantasms seen at Whitehall in Cromwell's times which caused him to keep such mighty guards in and about his bedchamber and yet so oft to change his lodgings; if those things done at St. James' where the devil so joal'd the centinels against the sides of the queen's chappell doors that some of them fe...

The Talisman is Sir Walter Scott's tale of the Crusades -- a tale of chivalry, of violence, of virtue, romance, and deceit. In Scott's own words: ". . . the warlike character of Richard I, wild and generous, a pattern of chivalry, with all its extravagant virtues, and its no less absurd errors, was opposed to that of Saladin, in which the Christ...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

«Et un homme qui a fait des pertes.-Allez!» SHAKSPEARE. Beaucoup de bruit pour rien. QUAND l'honnête Dogberry[1] récapitule tous ses titres à la considération, qui, à son avis, auraient dû le mettre à l'abri de l'apostrophe injurieuse que lui adresse Monsieur le gentilhomme Conrade, il est remarquable qu'il ne parle pas avec plus d'emphase même ...