Sir Walter Scott

Ivanhoe

Walter Scott

Sarah Sammis

An enjoyable reread. I had read it for the first time when I was writing an essay on the Robin Hood film staring Erol Flynn and Ivanhoe was highly cited in the various books I had read. At the time though, I pretty much just skimmed it for bits relevant to my paper but this time I was able to lose myself in the language, the adventure and the derring-do.

Dimitris Papastergiou

Not even Robin Hood could save this one!

This one's a classic. 

I really want to meet the people who decide what's classic and what's not.

So, Ivanhoe. Who's Ivanhoe? I don't know who Ivanhoe is but what I do know is everyone else, because you're reading more about secondary characters than Ivanhoe here. Hell, the fucking maid has more depth and character development than Ivanhoe does here.

What made me hate it is all the details and descriptions of every single detail on every damn thing. Pages and pages of descriptions. We GET IT. It's medieval, there's knights and castles and horses and armors and shit. We get it.

Other than that, the language in it becomes tedious and boring pretty fast, I mean with all the thees thys doust haths and all that. Again, we get it. It's old England. 

I would have rate this as ok, because the battles and everything that included Robin was fun to read. But the negatives were so many, so much frustration with the language and the details and everyone here hiding true identities and having nicknames, their secret nicknames had nicknames of their own. 

Goes without saying, it's going to take a lot for me to read another Scott book.

Rose Stanley

Very enjoyable Robin Hood fanfic. Devoured this. Rebecca deserved so much better though.

Ottilia Schack

Ricardo

Haleemah Sadiah

Ivanhoe (Great Illustrated Classics)

zatul 

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Erika

Joshua Line

Michael Cowell

Andrew John Kinney

Damon Jablons 

Rustė Tervydytė

Rita Lisboa

Scott's classic historical romance, set in the twelfth-century England of Richard I, depicts the adventures of the heroic Wilfred of Ivanhoe in winning the hand of beautiful Lady Rowena

Rachel Kanyid

Tilde C

Olivia Hugh

Eloise

Sara Enn

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.

Lily

Susan Beddes

Ivanhoe

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