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One of the BBC''s ''100 Novels That Shaped Our World''

The Penguin English Library Edition of Ivanhoe by Walter Scott

''Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives!''

Banished from England for seeking to marry against his father''s wishes, Ivanhoe joins Richard the Lion Heart on a crusade in the Holy Land. On his return, his passionate desire is to be reunited with the beautiful but forbidden lady Rowena, but he soon finds himself playing a more dangerous game as he is drawn into a bitter power struggle between the noble King Richard and his evil and scheming brother John. The first of Scott''s novels to address a purely English subject, Ivanhoe is set in a highly romanticized medieval world of tournaments and sieges, chivalry and adventure where dispossessed Saxons are pitted against their Norman overlords, and where the historical and fictional seamlessly merge.

The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the

Ivanhoe

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/12/2012
      ISBN13: 9780141199139, 978-0141199139
      ISBN10: 014119913X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      One of the BBC''s ''100 Novels That Shaped Our World''

      The Penguin English Library Edition of Ivanhoe by Walter Scott

      ''Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives!''

      Banished from England for seeking to marry against his father''s wishes, Ivanhoe joins Richard the Lion Heart on a crusade in the Holy Land. On his return, his passionate desire is to be reunited with the beautiful but forbidden lady Rowena, but he soon finds himself playing a more dangerous game as he is drawn into a bitter power struggle between the noble King Richard and his evil and scheming brother John. The first of Scott''s novels to address a purely English subject, Ivanhoe is set in a highly romanticized medieval world of tournaments and sieges, chivalry and adventure where dispossessed Saxons are pitted against their Norman overlords, and where the historical and fictional seamlessly merge.

      The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the

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