Ivanhoe - Walter Scott

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'

'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.

'One of the most exciting stories in the language' A. N. Wilson
Edited with an introduction and notes by Graham Tulloch