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
best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning
of the First World War.
