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The Bethrothed: "Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest."

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Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSE, was a Scottish playwright, novelist and poet who became the first English-language author to be internationally celebrated within their own lifetime. Although he wrote extensively, he was by profession an advocate and judge, and continued to practice alongside his writing career. Scott was fascinated by the oral tradition of the Scottish borders, with its poetry, folklore and legend, and he collected stories throughout his youth and as a young man, almost obsessively. Scott’s friend, James Ballantyne, had founded a printing press in 1796 , and had published much of Scott’s early work, including the Lay of the Last Minstrel which firmly established Scott’ position in the Scottish literary tradition, and that of English literature as a whole. Scott was by now printing regularly with the Ballantynes and convinced them to relocate their press to Edinburgh and became a partner in their business. In 1813 Scott was offered the post of Poet Laureate, but turned the offer down and the position was taken by Robert Southey. Until now he had predominately written poetry however he became interested in the novel form despite its comparative unpopularity for a supposed aesthetic inferiority. Owing to this he published his first novel, Waverley, anonymously, in 1814. Its success encouraged several more novels, all of which were published under “Author of Waverley” as a means of piggybacking the success of Waverley and because Scott feared his traditional father would disapprove of such a trivial pursuit as novel writing. Scott came to be known as the “Wizard of the North” for his writing, and among literary circles it was an open secret that he was the author of these novels. In 1815 the Prince Regent, George, dined with him as he wished to meet the “Author of Waverley”. By 1825 a banking crisis was crippling the nation and the Ballantyne printing company went under with Scott left with debts of £130,000 (approx. £10mil in 2014). His pride kept him from accepting financial aid (even from his admirer, King George) or declaring himself bankrupt. He resolved to continue writing until he could pay his debts. Compounding these unfortunate circumstances was the death of his wife in 1826. However, he maintained his enormous literary output until 1831 by which point his health had begun to fail and he died on September 21st 1832. At his death he was still in debt, the continuing sales of his work ensured that all debt was discharged shortly after he died.

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    3. The Bride Of Lammermoor: "When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone." Sir Walter Scott
    4. A Prince Of Bohemia Honore De Balzac
    5. Jude The Obscure, By Thomas Hardy: "Every successful man is more or less a selfish man." Thomas Hardy
    6. To Be Read At Dusk: "If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers." Charles Dickens
    7. Bridge Builders: "Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs." Rudyard Kipling
    8. The Alkahest Honore De Balzac
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    10. Paris Short Stories Not by Guy de Maupassant Edgar Allan Poe
    11. Sevastopol Sketches Leo Tolstoy
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    13. The Cricket On The Hearth: "We forge the chains we wear in life.” Charles Dickens
    14. The American: “I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favour of doing it.” Henry James
    15. The Surgeon's Daughter: “Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.” Sir Walter Scott
    16. Rodney Stone: "We can't command our love, but we can our actions." Arthur Conan Doyle
    17. The Underground City: “The earth does not need new continents, but new men.” Jules Verne
    18. A Journal Of The Plague Year Daniel Defoe
    19. The Man Who Knew Too Much: “Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.” GK Chesterton
    20. American Notes: "We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse." Rudyard Kipling
    21. Herodias Gustave Flaubert
    22. Kenilworth: "Look back, and smile on perils past." Sir Walter Scott
    23. A Personal Record: "All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind." Joseph Conrad
    24. The Cruise Of The Dazzler: “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” Jack London
    25. Heart of Darkness: "We live as we dream…alone…" Joseph Conrad
    26. A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court - "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus": "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain
    27. Nana: "If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud." Emile Zola
    28. Chance - "It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth": "It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth." Joseph Conrad
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    30. Lady Susan: "Facts are such horrid things!" Jane Austen
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    32. Notes From The Underground: "To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise." Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    33. The Rubaiyat: "Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life." Omar Khayyam
    34. Dead Souls: “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.” Nikolai Gogol
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    36. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: “We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.” Jules Verne
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    40. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
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    44. The Aspern Papers: “I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.” Henry James
    45. In The South Seas: "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." Robert Louis Stevenson
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