Tales and Verse From Sir Walter Scott Author:Sir Walter Scott General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1914 Original Publisher: American Book Co. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you c... more »an select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SCOTT'S CAREER AS POET AND NOVELIST First Period. -- The Poems and the earliest Novels. 1805-1815 1805. The Lay Of The Last Minstrel. 1808. Marmion. 1810. The Lady Of The Lake. 1811. The Vision Of Don Roderick. 1812. ROKEBY. 1813. The Bridal Of Triermain. 1814. Waverley. 1815. The Lord Of The Isles; Guy Mannering; The Field Of Waterloo. Second Period. -- The Novels which established his fame. 1816-1825 1816. The Antiquary; The Black Dwarf; Old Mortality. 1817. Harold The Dauntless; Rob Roy. 1818. The Heart Of Midlothian. 1819. The Bride Of Lammermoor; A Legend Of Montrose ; Ivanhoe. 1820. The Monastery; The Abbot. 1821. Kenilworth; The Pirate. 1822. The Fortunes Of Nigel. 1823. Peveril Of The Peak; Quentin Durward; St. Ronan's Well. 1824. Redgauntlet. 1825. The Betrothed; The Talisman. Third Period. -- The Novels and Tales written to retrieve his fortunes. 1827-1831 1827. Woodstock; The Two Drovers; The High Land Widow; The Surgeon's Daughter. 1828. Tales Of A Grandfather; The Fair Maid Of Perth ; Anne Of Geierstein. 1831. Castle Dangerous; Count Robert Of Paris. The Saracen And The Crusader TALES AND VERSE SIR KENNETH AND THE . SARACEN [A Scottish knight, on his way to Syria, to bear his part in the Third Crusade, encounters a Saracen warrior, of the forces of the Sultan Saladin.] The burning sun of Syria had not yet attained its highest point in the horizon, when a knight of the Red Cross,1 who had left his distant northern home, and joined the host of the Crusaders in Palestine, was pacing slowly along the sandy deserts which ...« less