“Secret Chambers and Hiding Places” is a collection of concealments and their uses, almost all within England, although a very few passages and chambe...
1819 gerät das Handelshaus, bei dem Johanna Schopenhauer ihr ganzes Geld angelegt hat, in Zahlungsschwierigkeiten. Beim anschließenden Vergleich verli...
R. M. Ballantyne (April 24, 1825 – February 8, 1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer.
Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part...
Pomona and Jone of Rudder Grange fame travel to England and Scotland. Along the way, Pomona tangles with wild pigs, haymaking, hotels great and small,...
Good people all, of every degree,I pray, ye all be warned by me:I advise ye all to pause and think,And never more to taste strong drink.
Some people d...
The Ball and the Cross is G. K. Chesterton's third novel. In the introduction Martin Gardner notes that it is a "mixture of fantasy, farce and theolog...
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassing twelve b...
An adventure novel about William Wallace, one of the most popular books ever written by Jane Porter. The French version was even banned by Napoleon, a...
A Boy's Song is an autobiographical poem by James Hogg, first published in 1816. It is a coming-of-age story that tells of the author's childhood in t...
Lady Juliana, the indulged and coddled seventeen-year-old daughter of the Earl of Cortland, is betrothed by her father to a wealthy old Duke. However,...
Waverley is a historical novel set in Scotland during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. It follows the story of Edward Waverley, a young English soldier...
The book chronicles the early life of James V, King of Scots, offering a fictionalized account of his adventures and challenges in the 16th century. B...
This book is a collection of biographical sketches of individuals who emigrated from a specific region in Ontario, Canada, known as 'Zorra.' The autho...
In Freedom's Cause follows the exploits of young Edward Leslie, a young English boy caught in the crossfire of the Scottish Wars of Independence. Edw...
The House with the Green Shutters is a powerful and bleak novel set in the fictional Scottish village of Barbie, based on the author's hometown of Och...
Ewart Alan Mackintosh's 'In Memoriam' is a collection of poems that explore the themes of war, loss, and remembrance. Mackintosh was a Scottish soldie...
Lord of the Isles, a narrative poem by Sir Walter Scott, recounts the turbulent period in Scottish history surrounding Robert Bruce's fight for indepe...
In the aftermath of the Jacobite Rebellion, young Count Victor embarks on a perilous journey to Scotland, seeking vengeance against a traitor to the J...
In 'Mr. Standfast', Richard Hannay, a seasoned spy, is called back from the Western Front to tackle a new espionage mission. Forced to adopt the guise...
Dickson McCunn, a retired grocer, embarks on a walking holiday in the Scottish highlands. His peaceful journey takes an unexpected turn when he encoun...
'Adventures of Master F.J.' is a novel told through a series of letters, poems, and third-person narration. It chronicles the passionate and scandalou...
Marshall Allerdyke, driving from London to Hull to attend to an urgent telegram from his cousin, finds himself drawn into a perplexing case. While rus...
Our Little Australian Cousin is a delightful look back at how people and children lived in the late 1800s in Australia, then part of the British Empir...
This play, based on Sir Walter Scott's poem 'The Lady of the Lake', follows the romantic and adventurous journey of King James V, disguised as a knigh...
