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Title	:	Kventinas Dervardas (Waverley Novels #12)
Author	:	Walter Scott
Book Format	:	Leather Bound
Book Edition	:	Pasaulinės Literatūros Biblioteka
Pages	:	Pages: 431 pages
Published	:	April 15th 1987 by Vaga (first published May 17th 1823)
Categories	:	Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Adventure

Kventinas Dervardas (Waverley Novels #12) Leather Bound | Pages: 431 pages

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I recently watched the Hollywood movie version of Quentin Durward (in several Youtube installments), starring Robert Taylor, Kaye Kendall, and Robert Morley; and I decided to pick up a used hard-bound copy to read in the original literary format. Even after having read barely 70 pages of the book, including the 33-page "Introduction", I was able to affirm that for once Hollywood captured the book's droll, ironic humor, especially in the on-screen characterization of Louis XI (aka the "Spider King") as he was portrayed by Robert Morley.

I found myself chuckling aload at several passages in the introduction alone, in which Scott spends 31 pages describing a visit to France during a decline in his fortunes and his dismay at the ensuing conversion of his neice, Christian, to Catholicism, and her subsequent enrollment in a convent, and at his fifty-year-old Aunt's marriage to a French pop-in-jay described as looking "as if one pair of half-extended compasses had been placed perpendicularly upon the top of another, while the space on which the hinges revolved quite sufficed to represent the body ... the rest was mustache, pelisse, and callico trouser."

Scott eventually got around to the point of having an introduction, where (after 30+ pages) his host's remote Scottish lineage and extensive library of illuminated works on French history became the inspiration for this story about a Scottish adventurer's exploits during the era when Louis XI's Pre-Machiavellian intrigues solidified France into a modern state while simultaneously putting the final nails in the coffins of both feudalism and the obsolescent "code of chivalry."


I finally finished the book, and it maintained its droll irony and dead-pan gallows-humor throughout! Very amusing - not at all what I had expected from Sir Walter Scott of all people.

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Original Title:	Quentin Durward
Edition Language:	Lithuanian
Series:	Waverley Novels #12
Characters:	Quentin Durward
Setting:	France

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I've become a huge Walter Scott fan. This story is not a fast paced action thriller. It's the classic style of moderate pacing to get to know the characters fully and then the action starts and progresses towards the payoff. The character of King Louis XI of France is very deep and not the usual for the villain of the story. Scott really gets into his mindset and machinations so that you can dislike him and yet somewhat root for him at the same time. The hero, Quentin Durward, is a young Scott

I have to admit I was a little surprised by how engaging, exciting, and funny this historical novel by Sir Walter Scott was. This novel, written in 1823, tells the story of Quentin Durward, a wandering Scottish nobleman who goes to France to make his fortune and ends up serving in the Scottish Guard of the French King, Louis XI. Quentin is as noble and true and chivalrous as Louis is sneaky, cruel, and out for number one, but together they make a pretty good team and a very satisfying story.

The title character is a typical Hhero for Scott: young, ambitious, brave, adept at swordplay, of impeccable honor, hopelessly romantic and in love with a very beautiful but seemingly unattainable young lady. Set in fifteenth century France, the novel is really more about the rivalry between King Louis XI of France and Charles the Bold, the Duke of Burgundy. The main issue arising between them , which each of them use to get the better of their rival, is the marriage of Isabelle of Croye. It is

The title character is a typical Hhero for Scott: young, ambitious, brave, adept at swordplay, of impeccable honor, hopelessly romantic and in love with a very beautiful but seemingly unattainable young lady. Set in fifteenth century France, the novel is really more about the rivalry between King Louis XI of France and Charles the Bold, the Duke of Burgundy. The main issue arising between them , which each of them use to get the better of their rival, is the marriage of Isabelle of Croye. It is

DisappointingHaving long ago read and enjoyed Scott's Ivanhoe, I looked forward to a tale of rousing adventure with Quentin Durward. Unfortunately, I found this to be a ponderous read, rife with antiquated and sometimes incomprehensible terminology as well as a great excess of verbosity. Oddly, most of the story was less about the adventures of the title character than about the machinations of the wily and unscrupulous monarch Louis XI, and I found this emphasis to be unenjoyable.

Love ..Love this story

Best Sir Walter scott I have read. Underrated in my option.