Ivanhoe

Fiction Classics

Author: Walter Scott

COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED”Exuberant, colourful and packed with incident, Ivanhoe is Sir Walter Scott’s great romance of the Age of Chivalry”Scott’s noble knight, brave Ivanhoe, returns home from the Crusades to claim Rowena, an Anglo-Saxon princess, to be his bride. Before long he is embroiled in the struggle between Prince John and his brother, Richard the Lionheart, who ha….Read More

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