··· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ··· 9783849645182 ··· 1036145455 ··· This is the fully illustrated and extended annotated edition including a rare and extensive biographical essay on the author, his life and works plus a wealth of illustrations. The second novel written by Scott turned aside from the path of history, so successfully followed in `Waverley,` and dealt no less happily with private scenes and characters. Some of the most enduring and popular types in the author`s entire gallery are to be found in `Guy Mannering.` Godfrey Bertram, the easy-going laird of the Ellengowan estate, whose hearth-stone is open to vagrant and gentleman alike, shelters a young Englishman of good family during a night when an heir is born to Ellangowari. The vistor, Guy Mannering, knows the rudiments of the discredited science of astrology, and-partly out of curiosity, partly to gratify the father`s whim-casts the horoscope of the infant. The prediction shows three periods of baleful influence upon the child, beginning at five years and ending at twenty-one-the last period strangely coinciding with a storm-centre prophesied for Mannering`s promised wife. Disturbed by these coincidences, Mannering absolves astrology henceforth, and in order to avoid the possibility of influencing his host`s son, he writes and seals the prediction, with instructions that it be left unopened until after the child`s fifth birthday. The next day he departs, and soon after enters military service in India, where he attains the rank of Colonel... Hersteller: Jazzybee Verlag Marke: Jazzybee Verlag EAN: 9783849645182 Kat: Nonbooks/Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur/Historische Romane, Erzählungen Lieferzeit: Sofort lieferbar Versandkosten: Ab 20¤ Versandkostenfrei in Deutschland Icon: https://www.inforius-bilder.de/bild/?I=wBhrQXF6aNZEKbpDXMxw3Nz%2BcoIU9BVvKzBxJYL50XU%3D Bild:
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