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It is hardly to be expected, that an Author whom the Public have honoured with some degree of applause, should not be again a trespasser on their kindness.  Yet the Author of MARMION must be supposed to feel some anxiety concerning its success, since he is sensible that he hazards, by this second intrusion, any reputation which his first Poem may have procured him.  The present story turns upon the private adventures of a fictitious character; but is called a Tale of Flodden Field, because the hero’s fate is connected with that memorable defeat, and the causes which led to it.  The design of the Author was, if possible, to apprize his readers, at the outset, of the date of his Story, and to prepare them for the manners of the Age in which it is laid.  Any Historical Narrative, far more an attempt at Epic composition, exceeded his plan of a Romantic Tale; yet he may be permitted to hope, from the popularity of THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL, that an attempt to paint the manners of the feudal times, upon a broader scale, and in the course of a more interesting story, will not be unacceptable to the Public.

The Poem opens about the commencement of August, and concludes with the defeat of Flodden, 9th September, 1513.

                                                Ashestiel, 1808,

Übersicht

Waverley oder: Vor sechzig Jahren war's

Guy Mannering – der Roman eines Sterndeuters

Der Altertümler

Der schwarze Zwerg

Robin der Rote – der Bandenführer der Hochlande

Das Herz von Midlothian oder Der Kerker von Edinburg

Ivanhoe

Das Kloster

Der Abt oder Maria Stuarts Glück und Ende

Kenilworth

Der Pirat

Quentin Durward

Die Verlobten

Der Talisman

Das schöne Mädchen von Perth

Anna von Geierstein oder Das Nebelmädchen

Graf Robert von Paris

Schloß Douglas am Blutsumpf

Drei Erzählungen aus dem schottischen Hochland (Der Graf mit dem zweiten Gesicht, Hochländer-Ehre, Der Zauberspiegel)

Zwei Erzählungen (Die Hochlandhexe, Ein Kind der Sünde)