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The Siege of Malta

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Walter Scott

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The Siege of Malta: An Historical Novel

The island of Malta is key to the control of the central Mediterranean Sea. For five months in 1561 a Turkish force attacked Malta--and was defied, in a great epic of endurance, by the Knights of St. John. Sir Walter Scott visited the island a year before his death, and gathered material to write a novel about it, dying before it was complete. Now S. Fowler Wright has finished Scott's last great historical romance. This is a story of high courage and deep faith. At its centre stands the old Grand Master of the Order, La Vallette (after whom Valetta was named), grim and unshakeable. But it is also a story of love undaunted amid fearful perils; of a girl who, rather than be separated from the man she loves, learns to wield a sword, and, escaping by a hairsbreadth from the clutches of the infidel, finally wins even the Grand Master's grudging admiration. Here is a novel to stir the blood and stimulate the imagination.

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Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott: Scottish novelist and poet. Roy” and other famous novels that are still read today. Scott was born in Scotland in 1771 to noble parents. Scott learned to read from his aunt Jenny, and she told him many historical stories and legends that formed his consciousness and developed his imagination, so that its effects were evident in his literary works. Scott studied to become a lawyer like his father, and the study of English literature sparked his passion, as he studied classics at the "University of Edinburgh" at twelve, and when he was twenty-one he had completed his studies of law and worked as a lawyer without leaving literature, so he read many books in multiple languages ​​such as Spanish, Italian, French, German and Latin Then he began publishing his poetry in 1802. With the increase of his financial income, he began to devote himself little by little to literature, so he produced his famous historical novel "Ivanhoe" in 1822 AD, after which he was called the father of the modern novel and was given the title of biographer. Scott had a keen memory and was interested in the study of history, especially the medieval period, which he was concerned with in his novels. He was one of the first writers to emphasize the relationship between characters and their surroundings. He also mixed realism, local color and romance in his works, and his works left a clear impact on the literature of the nineteenth century. His large financial expenses were the reason for his bankruptcy; which forced him to redouble his efforts in writing and writing to meet his debts, but the continuous and strenuous effort caused him to fall ill; His health worsened and he died in 1832 at the age of sixty-one.

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