Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0140436588
ISBN 13
9780140436587
Category
Fiction
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Publication Year
2000
Publisher
Pages
544
Description
"Ivanhoe" (1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his first attempt to combine history and romance, which later influenced Victorian medievalism. Set at the time of the Norman Conquest, "Ivanhoe" returns from the Crusades to claim his inheritance and the love of Rowena and becomes involved in the struggle between Richard Coeur de Lion and his Norman brother John. The gripping narrative is structured by a series of conflicts: Saxon versus Norman, Christian versus Jew, men versus women, played out against Scott's unflinching moral realism. - from Amzon
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1
