Ivanhoe

Name: Ivanhoe
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Walter Scott
ISBN: 9780140620504

Walter Scott

31/03/1994
Penguin Classics

NC (0 avis)

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur Banished from England for seeking to marry against his fathers 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 Scotts 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. Biographie de l'auteur Walter Scott (1771-1832) was an extremely influential novelist, establishing the form of the historical novel and the short story. He wrote both dramas and novels, including The Antiquary and The Tale of Old Mortality.