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Az úgynevezett "Waverly-regények" szerzője mind ez ideig töretlen népszerűségének örvendett, s eképpen a maga területén bízvást nevezhető a siker L'Enfant gaté-jának. (Elkényeztetett gyermek. (francia)). Nyilvánvaló volt azonban, hogy a sűrű egymásutánban megjelenő...

Author's NoteI had two principal aims when I began to write this biography. First, being possessed since childhood by a passión for the subject of Mary Queen of Scots,1 wished to test for myself the truth or falsehood of the many legends which surround her name. In order to tear away these...

chapter one VISIT TO A GRANDFATHER That afternoon I had been Walking with my son in what for me were familiar streets, streets of the town where I was born. I had taken him there only once before, when he was an infant. Now he was nearly fifteen, and we spoke the same language. I was taunting...