Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
by Walter Scott
List Price:
Our Price: $5.09
You Save: $4.91 (49%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $1.99 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Walter ScottContributor: Graham Tulloch
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-10-01
ISBN: 0140436588
Number of pages: 544
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Book Reviews of Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
Book Review: Put on your best yeomanly manner and stick with this one
Summary: 4 Stars
I recently made my third and final attempt to read this book, which I bought about five years ago. I had got just about as far as I had the last time I tried when I took it to work, where no fewer than three colleagues told me they'd tried to read it but got bored and given up. Out of spite I decided I was going to finish it this time! Once I'd got about a fifth of the way through I was hooked. As long as you can suspend disbelief (you have to do it at the cinema and with any modern thriller and it's much more worth it for the language in this book) it's a faultless story. Heartless but chivalrous villains, beautiful maidens, honest outlaws and downtrodden heroes getting mixed up in robberies, a tournament, kidnap, siege and battle, and with a liberal spreading of the words yeomanly, damsel and sooth. What more could you want from a novel? The greatest characteristic is the way that the story is told in small sections, each leading up to a point, where some characters appear, and then the narrative goes back to join those characters and see how they got there. It's surprisingly effective and yet it isn't repetitive as you might expect. Can't recommend it enough, if you can get past the first few chapters and start to be interested in the characters.
Literature & Fiction Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Favorite Historical Novels
The Gates of the Alamoby Stephen Harrigan
Penguin Mass Market; Published: 2003-12-02; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.49
Price in other shops:
Mister Christianby William Kinsolving
Wheeler Publishing; Published: 1996-07; Hardcover; Book
Price in other shops:
The Bruce Trilogy: A Superb Trilogy About Scotland's Greatest Hero (Coronet Books)by Nigel Tranter
Hodder Headline; Published: 1985-03-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $15.50
Price in other shops:
Enigmaby Robert Harris
Ballantine Books; Published: 1996-09-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.00
Price in other shops:
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arcby Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens
Aegypan; Published: 2006-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $12.76
Price in other shops:
An Army of Angels: A Novel of Joan of Arcby Pamela Marcantel
St. Martin's Griffin; Published: 1998-03-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.35
Price in other shops:
I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International)by Robert Graves
Vintage; Published: 1989-10-23; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.72
Price in other shops:
The Glorious Causeby Jeff Shaara
Fawcett; Published: 2003-06-03; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.08
Price in other shops:
Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horseby Win Blevins
Forge Books; Published: 1996-03-15; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $16.54
Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)by Walter Scott
Penguin Classics; Published: 2000-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.64
Price in other shops:
Similar books summaries and other product reviews
Treasure Island (Signet Classics)by Robert Louis Stevenson
Signet Classics; Published: 1998-12-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.71
Price in other shops:
Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)by Charles Dickens
Penguin Classics; Published: 2002-12-31; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.59
Price in other shops:
The Once and Future Kingby Terence Hanbury White
Ace; Published: 1987-07-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.95
Price in other shops:
Waverley: or 'Tis Sixty Years Since (Oxford World's Classics)by Walter Scott
Oxford University Press, USA; Published: 1998-08-20; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.28
Price in other shops:
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Signet Classics)by Howard Pyle
Signet Classics; Published: 2006-09-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.63
Price in other shops:
A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)by Charles Dickens
Penguin Classics; Published: 2003-05-27; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.50
Price in other shops:
The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)by Alexandre Dumas p?re
Penguin Classics; Published: 2003-05-27; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.27
Price in other shops:
Jeeves in the Morningby P. G. Wodehouse
Harper Perennial; Published: 1990-03-14; Paperback; Book
Best price: $15.39
The Thirty-Nine Steps (Penguin Classics)by John Buchan
Penguin Classics; Published: 2004-09-07; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.65
Price in other shops:
Rob Roy (Oxford World's Classics)by Walter Scott
Oxford University Press, USA; Published: 1998-11-19; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.13
Price in other shops: