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The Talisman

Author
Walter Scott
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
356 pages
ISBN
9781787244023
Published
25 January 2018
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Third Crusade
  • Sir Kenneth
  • Richard the Lionheart
  • Saladin
  • Political Intrigue
  • Cultural Clashes
  • Honor
  • Chivalry
  • Peaceful Coexistence
  • Medieval World

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During the Third Crusade, Sir Kenneth?s honour turns on the stolen English banner, Richard the Lionheart?s illness, and Saladin?s surprising grace. The healing talisman cures the king; the deeper drama is chivalry, intrigue, and a knight?s trial of name. Scott?s Holy Land romance of war and courtesy.

Author

Walter Scott (1771–1832) invented the historical novel as a popular art. Waverley, Ivanhoe, and Rob Roy taught Europe that the past could be walked through — tartan, crusade, and the clash of Highland and Hanoverian as living weather, not a school lesson. A poet and an Edinburgh lawyer before the novels made him famous, Scott wrote at a pace that built Abbotsford and a nation's tourist imagination.

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