Ivanhoe

Walter Scott

One of the main forces in early nineteenth-century literature, Sir Walter Scott was notonly among the greatest novelists of his time, but influenced generations of writers,including literary giants such as Stendhal and Tolstoy. Though chiefly rememberedfor his historical epics Ivanhoe, Rob Roy and Guy Mannering, Scott penned anumber of short stories which have been unjustly ecl...

Walter Scott

From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characters. The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor was already a legendary, disputed figure by the time Scott wrote - a heroic Scottish Robin Hood to some, an over-glamorised, unprincipled predator to others.Scott approaches Rob Roy indirectly, thr...

Walter Scott

"Ivanhoe" narra la enconada lucha de un hombre para restablecer su buen nombre y de paso el de la corona. La acción transcurre en una época convulsa, en tiempos de cruzadas, de encarnizadas luchas entre dos pueblos antaño hermanados, el sajón y el normando, y el príncipe Juan sin Tierra planea coronarse rey, aprovechando que Ricardo Corazón de León se halla luchando en las Cruz...

Walter Scott

Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents - sieges, ambushes and combats - and equally memorable characters: Cedric of Rotherwood, the die-hard Saxon; his ward Rowena; the fierce Templar knight, Sir Brian de Bois-Gilbert; the Jew, Isaac of York, and his beauti...

Walter Scott