Adventure

Ivanhoe: A Romance

by Walter Scott

A disinherited knight returns from crusade in disguise to find his country’s Norman and Saxon halves still refusing to speak to each other. Scott more or less invented the modern costume drama with this one. The tournament scenes alone are why half the era’s illustrators kept their jobs.

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Reading time

About 13 hours

Where to find it

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Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #82. In the public domain in the United States.