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"Ivanhoe" narra la enconada lucha de un hombre para restablecer su buen nombre y de paso el de la corona. La acción transcurre en una época convulsa, en tiempos de cruzadas, de encarnizadas luchas entre dos pueblos antaño hermanados, el sajon y el normando, y el principe Juan sin Tierra planea coronarse rey, aprovechando que Ricardo Corazon de Leon se halla luchando en las Cruzadas. Ricardo necesitara la ayuda de un caballero valeroso y ducho en el campo de batalla, y ese sera Wilfred de Ivanhoe. Desheredado por su padre, desposeido de sus tierras y deshonrado, Ivanhoe tendra ocasion de reparar las muchas injusticias de que ha sido victima. Pero para debera luchar a muerte en combate singular, escalar los muros de un castillo, caer herido, ser apresado, liberado por el vil Robin Hood..., y todo ello al tiempo que tiene que lidiar con dos mujeres que se disputan su amor, la judia Rebecca de York y la aristocrata lady Rowena. Todo un clasico de la literatura que ahora se ofrece con las ilustraciones fantasticas de Jordi Vila.

It would be difficult to assign any good reason why the author of Ivanhoe, after using, in that work, all the art he possessed to remove the personages, action, and manners of the tale, to a distance from his own country, should choose for the scene of his next attempt the celebrated ruins of Melrose, in the immediate neighbourhood of his own residence. But the reason, or caprice, which dictated his change of system, has entirely escaped his recollection, nor is it worth while to attempt recalling what must be a matter of very little consequence.The general plan of the story was, to conjoin two characters in that bustling and contentious age, who, thrown into situations which gave them different views on the subject of the Reformation, should, with the same sincerity and purity of intention, dedicate themselves, the one to the support of the sinking fabric of the Catholic Church, the other to the establishment of the Reformed doctrines. It was supposed that some interesting subjects for narrative might be derived from opposing two such enthusiasts to each other in the path of life, and contrasting the real worth of both with their passions and prejudices. The localities of Melrose suited well the scenery of the proposed story; the ruins themselves form a splendid theatre for any tragic incident which might be brought forward; joined to the vicinity of the fine river, with all its tributary streams, flowing through a country which has been the scene of so much fierce fighting, and is rich with so many recollections of former times, and lying almost under the immediate eye of the author, by whom they were to be used in composition.

Grade 9 Up-By E.M. Forster. Narrated by Flo Gibson. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

El protagonista de la novela es Wilfredo de Ivanhoe, un joven y valeroso caballero de la corte de Ricardo Corazón de León. La novela narra los amores de Ivanhoe con lady Rowena, una dama sajona, así como la diferenciación entre sajones y sus dominadores normandos. Ivanhoe pertenece a una de las familias nobles sajonas en un momento en que la nobleza de Inglaterra era abrumadoramente normanda. Las simpatías de Scott están claramente del lado de los sajones, en especial de su líder, Cedric, y de todo su entorno.

Clásico de la literatura juvenil, en la colección Nuevo Auriga. Texto abreviado, para facilitar la lectura de los más jóvenes.

From Lands End to John OGroats, from Maine to Florida, from France to Russia, readers found Scotts novels irresistible. It was Waverley that may be considered as the instrument of that success - the historical novel, properly speaking, did not exist before Scott wrote it. In Waverley, his highly readable story of a romantic young man in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Scott blends realism and romance, the old world and the new, Enlightenment and Romanticism. Waverley stands ultimately for peace and stability, for social and political cohesion and harmony - qualities which may, consciously or unconsciously, account for its immense popularity.

The Chronicles of the Canongate, 1st Series / Contains: / Introduction by Sir Walter Scott, "The Author Of Waverley" / The Highland Widow / The Two Drovers

« Harold lIndomptable », roman historique de Walter Scott publié en 1821, plonge le lecteur dans lAngleterre tumultueuse du XIe siècle, à la veille de la conquête normande. Loeuvre retrace lascension

One of the main forces in early nineteenthcentury literature, Sir Walter Scott was not only among the greatest novelists of his time, but influenced generations of writers, including literary giants such as Stendhal and Tolstoy. Though chiefly remembered for his historical epics Ivanhoe, Rob Roy and Guy Mannering, Scott penned a number of short stories which have been unjustly eclipsed by the enduring fame of his longer works.This volume brings together some of Scotts best short stories, each containing an element of the supernatural a ghostly apparition in The Tapestried Chamber, a tale of magic in My Aunt Margarets Mirror, grotesque diablerie in Wandering Willies Tale, the power of second sight in The Two Drovers and the inevitability of Fate in The Highland Widow all revealing the authors great talent in the shorterfiction form.If you enjoyed The Supernatural Short Stories by Sir Walter Scott, you might also like Tales of Horror by Edgar Allan Poe, also published by Alma Classics.

...Robin llegó a la pista del torneo cuando éste estaba en pleno apogeo. Los tiradores iban interviniendo, intentando acertar el blanco situado a una inmensa distancia. Hasta ahora, la mejor puntería era la del ultimo, un herculeo guarda forestal del rey.