Ivanhoe

About the Book

Set in the twelfth century, during the reign of Richard the Lionheart, Ivanhoe tells of the love of Wilfred of Ivanhoe for the Lady Rowena, his father Cedric's ward. Cedric, who is dedicated to the liberation of the Saxon people from Norman oppression and to the revival of the Saxon royal line, intends Rowena - a descendant of King Alfred - for the oafish Athelstane, and he banishes his son. Ivanhoe joins King Richard on his crusade in the Holy Land, and eventually the two men return secretly to England - Ivanhoe to regain his inheritance and the land of Rowena, Richard to secure his kingdom from his scheming brother John who has ruled in Richard's absence. With a gallery of memorable characters, high and low, Ivanhoe is a powerful and exciting evocation of a medieval world of jousting, baronial rivalry, siege warfare and trial by combat, and makes no attempt to gloss over the violence and brutality that lay behind the chivalric ideals.

About the Author

Sir Walter Scott, el fundador de la novela historica romantica, nos dejo, con su Ivanhoe, no solo un modelo de relato de aventuras, sino un detallado mosaico de las antiguas costumbres escocesas, un encantador viaje al mundo medieval y unos personajes romanticos, ya immortales. Ivanhoe es, ante todo, una apasionante mirada a una epoca oscura y remota, habitada por salteadores de caminos, caballeros con armaduras, hermosas damas y bellacos sin escrupulos. Los castillos, las ruinas, los bosques y el campo de batalla son los lugares donde principes y bufones, nobles y villanos, recrean para nosotros sus andanzas.

Mientras Ricardos Corazon de Leon esta cautivo, y tal vez merto en Tierra Santa, Inglaterra vive, a finales del siglo XII, sometida a la tirania de su hermano, Juan Sin Tierra. Un misterioso peregrino, un caballero de negra armadura, un habil arquero llamado Robin Hood al mando de un grupo de proscritos y un bufon, haran, frente ahora a las tropelia de los opresores y, tal vez, con su valor y nobleza, logren alzarse con la victoria.