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Author : Oliver Optic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : NYPL:33433082529623
Author : Oliver 1822-1897 Optic
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1371638187
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Author : Oliver Optic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:840010987
Author : Oliver Optic
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0267667590
Excerpt from A Young Knight-Errant: Or Cruising in the West Indies A young knight-errant is the third volume of the all-over-the-world series; and while it contains a completed story which may be read with out reference to its predecessors, it is a continuation of the adventures of Louis Belgrave, introduced in the initial story of the set, and to some extent of all the cabin party sailing in the guardian-mother, the magnificent steam-yacht of the Millionaire at Six teen. The young gentleman makes no display of his wealth, for he handles it himself only to a very limited extent, and is as modest as one in his position ought to be, though his surroundings are calculated to inflate his vanity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Sidney Painter
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781421433233
Originally published in 1933. As mediaeval society was dominated by the feudal caste, a biography that depicts the position, activities, manners, and thoughts of a member of that class might do much to elucidate the history of the period. This is what Sidney Painter had in mind when he wrote a William Marshal: Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England. The subject has proved a peculiarly fortunate one. The fourth son of John fitz Gilbert, marshal of the king's court, William for the first forty years of his life was a landless knight who devoted most of his time and energy to tournaments. In the year 1189 by his marriage to the daughter and heiress of Earl Richard of Pembroke, William became a great feudal lord with fiefs in Normandy, England, Wales, and Ireland. Thus his biography depicts the two extremes of feudal society—the landless knight and the rich baron. Finally in 1216 he was chosen regent of England for the young king, Henry III, and his biography becomes for three years the history of England.
Author : James J.Y. Liu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000583182
This book, first published in 1967, is a comprehensive study of knight-errantry in Chinese history and literature from the fourth century BC to the twentieth century. After discussing the social and intellectual backgrounds of knight-errantry, it gives examples of historical knights and describes the development of the theme of knight-errantry in poetry, fiction and drama. Many biographies, anecdotes, poems and tales are translated in full, while long prose romances and dramatic works are summarized and discussed. As background to these, sketches of the developments of Chinese fiction and drama are provided. In a final chapter, comparisons are made between Chinese and European knights, and between Chinese and Western chivalric literature.
Author : Oliver Optic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436758718
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Ann Augusta Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : UOM:39015065546254
Author : Pierre CARLET DE CHAMBLAIN DE MARIVAUX
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1750
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022534324
Author : Christopher Wilkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857714244
Sir Edward Woodville was the medieval knight par excellence - except that his life coincided with the beginning of the Renaissance. With this vivid and long-awaited biography, Christopher Wilkins demonstrates how Sir Edward carved out an important role for himself in the 15th century, marrying the old-fashioned values of a chivalric age with the modernising trends that were dramatically re-shaping Europe. Far from an anachronism, The Last Knight Errant reveals how this quintessentially medieval figure, riding from battle to battle across Europe, was also profoundly engaged in the events that built the post-medieval states of England, Spain and France. The Last Knight Errant is the first full biography of this pivotal figure in English history for over a century and reveals him to have been a true hero whose significance in the politics of the period is often overlooked. Drawing on original research throughout Europe, Christopher Wilkins draws out Sir Edward Woodville's fascinating life and unusual character in the context of his remarkable family, who have been traditionally cast as among the most unpopular in English history. Sir Edward's eldest sister, Elizabeth, was married to King Edward IV and his brother was guardian to the Prince of Wales but disaster struck when Richard of York executed his coup in 1483. Edward escaped with ships, money and men to Brittany where he became the first of Henry Tudor's new supporters, providing much needed credibility to that cause. He fought at Bosworth but once Henry was crowned and married to his niece, Edward sailed off to fight the Moors before returning to England in time to command the cavalry during the invasion by the pretender to the throne, Lambert Simnel. Never far from the centre of the action, ultimately Edward was killed at the Battle of St Aubin in 1488 where he was leading a freelance expedition to fight the French, contrary to King Henry's own wishes. The Last Knight Errant restores Sir Edward Woodville to his rightful place at the heart of power in 15th-century England and represents him as a true hero whose reputation suffered at the hands of that genius of propaganda, Richard III.
Author : Branko Vraneš
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783662619322
According to the customary literary-historical and theoretical notion, the fact that the first modern novel represents a parody or travesty of the chivalric ideal merits no particular attention. Failing to become attuned to the real role of the chivalric ideal at the beginning of the era of the modern novel, commentators missed the chance to adequately review the role of chivalry at the end of that period. The modern novel did not only begin, but also ended with a travesty of the chivalric ideal. The deep need of a significant number of modernist writers to measure their own time according to the ideals of the high and late Middle Ages cannot, therefore, be explained by a set of literary-historical, spiritual-historical or social circumstances. The predilection of a range of twentieth century novelists for a distant feudal past suggests that there exists a fundamental poetic connection between the modern (or at least the modernist) novel and the ideals of chivalry.
Author : Oliver Optic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : United States
ISBN : NYPL:33433066603774
Author : Oliver Optic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:319510008972840
Author : Oliver Optic
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465583116
Mr. Waddie Wimpleton, an elegant young gentleman of fifteen, by all odds the nicest young man in Centreport, was firing at a mark with a revolver. It was a very beautiful revolver, too, silver-mounted, richly chased, and highly polished in all its parts, discharging six shots at each revolution, not often at the target, in the unskilful hands of Mr. Waddie, but sometimes near enough to indicate what the marksman was shooting at. Even the target was quite an elaborate affair; and though Mr. Waddie had been shooting at it for a week, it was hardly damaged by the trial to which it had been subjected. It was two feet in diameter, having in its centre a tolerably correct resemblance of one of the optics of a bovine masculine; and this enigma, being literally interpreted, meant the bull’s eye, which Mr. Waddie was expected to hit, or at least to try to hit. Around it were several circles in black, red, yellow, green, and blue, each indicating a certain distance from the objective point of the shooter. There were a few holes in the target within these circles, but the central eye was not put out, and still glared defiance at the ambitious marksman. Mr. Waddie Wimpleton had everything he wanted, and therefore never wanted anything he had. There was no end to the ponies, sail-boats, row-boats, guns, pistols, fishing-rods, and other sporting gear, which came into his possession, and of which he soon became weary. His father was as rich as an East-Indian prince, and Mr. Waddie being an only son, though there were two daughters who partially “put his nose out of joint,” his paternal parent had labored industriously to spoil the child from babyhood. I am forced to acknowledge that he succeeded even better than he intended. Mr. Waddie was always waiting and watching for a new sensation. A magnificent kite, of party-colored silk, had evidently occupied his attention during the earlier hours of the morning, and it now lay neglected on the ground, the line stretched off in the direction of the lake. The young gentleman had become tired of the plaything, and when I approached him he was blazing away at the target with the revolver, at the rate of six shots in three seconds. I halted at a respectful distance from the marksman. He was not shooting at me, but I regarded this as the very reason why he would be likely to hit me. If he had been aiming at me, I should have approached him with more confidence. Keeping well in the rear of the young gentleman, I came within hailing distance of him. I did not belong to the “upper-ten” of Centreport, and I could not be said to be familiarly acquainted with him. My father was the engineer in his father’s steam-flouring mills, and a person of my humble connections was of no account in his estimation. But I am forced to confess that I had not that awe and respect for Mr. Waddie which wealth and a lofty social position demand of the humble classes. I had the audacity to approach the young scion of an influential house; and it was audacious, considered in reference to his pistol, if not to his social position.
Author : J.L. Jarvis
Publisher : Bookbinder Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780990647645
Violet Quinn's life changes forever when a lightning storm sends her back in time. Caught in a thunderstorm, cyclist Violet Quinn takes shelter in an ancient stone chamber, where a lightning strike sends her back in time. Landing in the frenzy of the Scottish Reformation, her life is at risk. Mysterious knight errant Robert de Mallay is on a mission to safely deliver an ancient Knights Templar secret. But when he encounters a beguiling young woman in peril, his daring rescue puts them in the path of danger. Together, Violet and Robert must battle enemies and their own growing feelings as they strive to complete the mission. But, with danger around every corner, will they be able to complete it and find a way back home? If you enjoy a timeless Scottish romance, get your copy of Knight Errant today!
