Ivanhoe

Resumen del libro

'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.

Biografía del autor

Walter Scott (1771-1832), escritor británico de origen escocés, es recordado por ser el inventor de la novela histórica moderna. Prolífico escritor, editor y poeta, se le puede considerar el primer autor que tuvo una verdadera carrera internacional en su tiempo, atesorando lectores en prácticamente todo el mundo. Su fama como novelista se cimenta en obras como Rob Roy (1818), Ivanhoe (1819), La novia de Lammermoor (1819), El pirata (1822) o El talismán (1825). Es autor de la monumental Vida de Napoleón Bonaparte, precedida de un bosquejo preliminar de la Revolución francesa (1827).