Lady of the Lake
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (608 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000LY4E0W |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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"No poem." according to M. D. Lutze. This refers to the version: Public Domain Books (March 17, 2006)The book's configured first page is set to the introduction, not to the cover, so that the reader must turn back through much of the frontmatter in order to get to the Table of Contents.The Table of Contents links the many Cantos, but the Cantos are empty - the actual poem is missing.The Footnotes and End notes, which compris. Brian Richard Bogosian said Three Stars. Would anyone be willing to tell me who did the cover art? Thank you. Madame Hardy said Just the notes, please. There is no point in downloading this book; it's only the notes. Until somebody uploads the full Project Gutenberg book to Amazon, you'll either have to pay or move the Gutenberg book to your Kindle yourself.
Douglas, though, is loath to bring disaster upon his host, and sets out for the royal court at Stirling, determined to surrender. At the beginning of the poem a mysterious knight calling himself James Fitz-James arrives at the castle and is granted hospitality. The Earl and his daughter Ellen take refuge with Roderick Dhu in his castle on an island in Loch Katrine. Fitz-James returns and offers to take Ellen to safety but is told that she loves another. It is Malcolm that Ellen favours. Travelling to Stirling, Fitz-James meets and quarrels with Roderick. She discovers that Fitz-James is no other than the King himself. In the ensuing fight, Roderick is mortally wounded and carried to Stirling as a captive. He nonetheless presses on her a ring which, he says, will obtain any favour from the King. The King and Douglas are reconciled through her intervention, and Ellen and Malcolm marry.. Facing attack from royal forces for sheltering Douglas, Roderick gathers his clan. During his brief stay, he falls in love with Ellen but finds rivals for her affections in Roderick himself and in Malcolm Graeme, a young knight loyal to the King but moved by sympathy at the plight of Douglases. The King has banishe