The Mysterious Freebooter, Or, The Days of Queen Bess: A RomanceValancourt Books, 2007 - 546 pages The year is 1587. Conflicts with Scottish borderers and rampaging banditti threaten England's peace and security, and Queen Elizabeth orders Lord William de Mowbray to fortify his castle against the invaders. Meanwhile, within the castle, Lord William's daughter Rosalind has fallen in love with the orphan Edward and will do anything to avoid a forced marriage with the sinister Lord Rufus de Madginecourt. Incensed at learning of Rosalind's love for Edward, Lord William sends him to Flanders, where he arranges to have him unjustly imprisoned. With her Edward unable to protect her, can Rosalind withstand the combined persecutions of her father and Lord Rufus? Who is Allanrod, the mysterious Scottish freebooter who seems determined to possess her? And what is the bloodstained spectre clad in black armour the servants have seen haunting the castle grounds? An incredible success when it first appeared in 1806, The Mysterious Freebooter was Francis Lathom's most popular novel and one of the bestselling novels of the first half of the nineteenth century. This new edition makes The Mysterious Freebooter - which is as entertaining and suspenseful today as when it was first published - available to new generations of readers. |
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... Allanrod - You know not whom you have to fear in Allanrod ; more of the demon than the man , there dwells within him ; wild , ungoverned , cruel , and ferocious are his passions ; dire is his enmity to England and its Sovereign ; but ...
... Allanrod , would halt on that and on the following night . To the Baron's questions of what had been the rank , title , or name of Allanrod , before he had taken upon him those he now bore ? the youth declared himself unable to reply ...
... Allanrod , who appeared to stand forth , dis- tinguished by crime , from the common race of man — that Allanrod who , to the iniquity of heading a lawless community of robbers , added the atrocious vice of having been the adulterous ...
Contents
Editors Note | vii |
The Mysterious Freebooter or The Days of Queen Bess | 9 |
Contemporary Reviews | 545 |
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