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  • Published: 7 January 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141199139
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 608
  • RRP: $27.99

Ivanhoe





The new paperback series: Penguin English Library

'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.

  • Published: 7 January 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141199139
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 608
  • RRP: $27.99

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Persuasion
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
On Sparta
Love
Annals
Military Dispatches

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