
A II. világháború vége felé, a németek és a nyugati szövetségesek rohanó fejlesztésbe kezdtek a sugárhajtóművek, és az ezekkel meghajtott repülőgépek katonai alkalmazhatóságának megvalósításáért. Ez volt az az utolsó verseny, melyet a Luftwaffe...
Szíria perzselő napja alatt egy páncélos lovag bandukol a végtelen homoksivatagban. A skót Sir Kenneth oroszlánszívű Richárd táborába tart, hogy csatlakozzon a keresztes sereghez, amely a Szentföld és Jeruzsálem visszafoglalásért indult hadba....
Banished from England for seeking to marry against his father's wishes, Ivanhoe joins Richard the Lion Heart on a crusade in the Holy Land. On his return, his passionate desire is to be reunited with the beautiful but forbidden lady Rowena, but...
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Old Mortality (1816), which many consider the finest of Scott's Waverley novels, is a swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland, in the period...
It was early in a fine summer's day, near the end of the eighteenth century, when a young man, of genteel appearance, having occasion to go towards the north-east of Scotland, provided himself with a ticket in one of those public carriages which...
The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the corrupt Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland are frustrated by the complexities of the legal and political situations following the 1707 Act of Union, and...
This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infuriated by the actions of John Porteous, Captain of the Guard, and when they hear that his death has...
A swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in 17th-century Scotland in the period infamous as the killing time". Henry Morton is torn between his love for a royalist's...
Set during the Jacobite rising in Scotland in 1745, this novel springs from Scott's childhood recollections and his desire to preserve in writing the features of life in the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland. Waverley was first published...
Set during the Jacobite rising in Scotland in 1745, this novel springs from Scotts childhood recollections and his desire to preserve in writing the features of life in the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland. Waverley was first published...
Vrcholné dielo klasika svetovej literatúry Waltera Scota je podobne ako Homérova Ilias situované ku koncu Tretej križiackej výpravy. Na pozadí dejinného konfliktu medzi kresťanstvom a islamom, keď sa kráľ Richard Levie srdce zo všetkých síl...
Klasik svetovej literatúry sir Walter Scott dobrodružným historickým príbehom chudobného škótskeho rytiera, princeznej zo vznešeného rodu, anglického kráľa Richarda Levie srdce a saracénskeho sultána Saladina situovaným do Tretej križiackej...
'It was early in a fine summer's day, near the end of the eighteenth century, when a young man, of genteel appearance, having occasion to go towards the north-east of Scotland, provided himself with a ticket in one of those public carriages which...
This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infuriated by the actions of John Porteous, Captain of the Guard, and when they hear that his death has...