The Siege of Malta

Walter Scott, S Fowler Wright

ISBN 10: 1434435962 / ISBN 13: 9781434435965

Published by Wildside Press, US, 2025

Seller Inventory # LU-9781434435965

Synopsis:

The island of Malta is key to the control of the central Mediterranean Sea. For five months in 1561 a Turkish force attacked Malta--and was defied, in a great epic of endurance, by the Knights of St. John. Sir Walter Scott visited the island a year before his death, and gathered material to write a novel about it, dying before it was complete. Now S. Fowler Wright has finished Scott's last great historical romance. This is a story of high courage and deep faith. At its centre stands the old Grand Master of the Order, La Vallette (after whom Valetta was named), grim and unshakeable. But it is also a story of love undaunted amid fearful perils; of a girl who, rather than be separated from the man she loves, learns to wield a sword, and, escaping by a hairsbreadth from the clutches of the infidel, finally wins even the Grand Master's grudging admiration. Here is a novel to stir the blood and stimulate the imagination.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Siege of Malta
Publisher: Wildside Press, US
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: Paperback
Condition: New