Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott - Book 1, Part 1

Title: Ivanhoe

Overview: A Romance by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. At the time it was written, the novel represented a shift by Scott away from writing novels set in Scotland in the fairly recent past to England in the Middle Ages. Ivanhoe proved to be one of the best-known and most influential of Scott's novels. Set in 12th-century England, with colorful descriptions of a tournament, outlaws, a witch trial, and divisions between Jews and Christians, Ivanhoe is credited for increased interest in chivalric romance and medievalism. John Henry Newman claimed that Scott "had first turned men's minds in the direction of the Middle Ages", while Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin likewise asserted Scott's great influence upon the revival of interest in the medieval period, primarily based upon the publication of the novel Ivanhoe. Moreover, Ivanhoe much influenced popular perceptions of Richard the Lionheart, King John, and Robin Hood.

Published: 1819

Series: Waverley Novels

List: 100 Classic Book Collection

Author: Sir Walter Scott

Genre: Historical Novel, Chivalric Romance, Action & Adventure Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance

Episode: Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott - Book 1, Part 1

Part: 1 of 4

Length Part: 4:54:05

Book: 1

Length Book: 19:24:54

Episodes: 1 - 11 of 44

Narrator: Collaborative

Language: English

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: adventure, middle ages, historical romances, saxons, normans, king richard, lionheart, crusades, austrian, german, prison, hero, knights, kings, medieval, england, heroism

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