A Scots archer in the guard of Louis XI navigates the treacherous French court. Scott's colorful medieval adventure.
Books mentioned in Quentin Durward (4)
The Bruce by John Barbour: “His principal work, The Bruce, records the life and deeds of Robert Bruce.”
The Squire of Low Degree: “The Squire of low degree, of whom he had just been reading, was, like himself, a gentleman void of land and living”
Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare: “Then happy low, lie down; Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV.”
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “the bridal minstrelsy still continued, as in the "Ancient Mariner," to "nod their heads" till morning shone on them.”
Books that mention Quentin Durward (3)
Trilby by George du Maurier: “like Quentin Durward, this d'Artagnan was a Scotsman”
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams: “…happiest hours of the boy's education were passed in summer lying on a musty heap of Congressional Documents in the old farmhouse at Quincy, reading "Quentin Durward," "Ivanhoe," and "The Talisman," and raiding the garden at intervals for peaches and pears.”
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes: “So the Bishop of Liège dies fifteen years before he should: does this invalidate Quentin Durward?”