IvanhoeRandom House Publishing Group, 29 aug 2006 - 544 pagina's Hailed by Victor Hugo as "the real epic of our age," Ivanhoe was an immensely popular bestseller when first published in 1819. The book inspired literary imitations as well as paintings, dramatizations, and even operas. Now Sir Walter Scott's sweeping romance of medieval England has prompted a lavish new television production. In the twelfth century, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe returns home to England from the Third Crusade to claim his inheritance and the love of the lady Rowena. The heroic adventures of this noble Saxon knight involve him in the struggle between Richard the Lion-Hearted and his malignant brother John: a conflict that brings Ivanhoe into alliance with the mysterious outlaw Robin Hood and his legendary fight for the forces of good. "Scott's characters, like Shakespeare's and Jane Austen's, have the seed of life in them," observed Virginia Woolf. "The emotions in which Scott excels are not those of human beings pitted against other human beings, but of man pitted against Nature, of man in relation to fate. His romance is the romance of hunted men hiding in woods at night; of brigs standing out to sea; of waves breaking in the moonlight; of solitary sands and distant horsemen; of violence and suspense." For Henry James, "Scott was a born storyteller. . . . Since Shakespeare, no writer has created so immense a gallery of portraits." |
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Abbot answered armour arms Athelstane attendants Beaumanoir beauty betwixt Black Knight blood Bracy Brian de Bois-Guilbert brother called canst castle Cedric champion Christian companion Coningsburgh Copmanhurst daughter death Disinherited Knight dress England exclaimed eyes fair fate father favour fear forest Friar Friar Tuck Front-de-Bœuf Grand Master guest Gurth hand hath head heart Heaven hermit holy holy order honour horse Isaac Ivanhoe Jester Jewess Jorvaulx King knave Knight Templar knowest Lady Rowena lance lists Locksley look maiden Malvoisin noble Norman numbers outlaw preceptor priest Prince John Prior Aymer prisoner ransom Rebecca replied reverend Richard Richard Plantagenet Rotherwood Saracens Saxon seemed Sir Knight squire steed sword tell Templar Templestowe thee thine thou art thou dost thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thyself tion trust valour voice Waldemar Fitzurse Wamba Wilfred wine wounded yeoman zecchins
Populaire passages
Pagina 1 - IN THAT pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.
Pagina xxii - ... that extensive neutral ground, the large proportion, that is, of manners and sentiments which are common to us and to our ancestors, having been handed down unaltered from them to us, or which, arising out of the principles of our common nature, must have existed alike in either state of society.
Pagina xiv - Ivanhoe was suggested by an old rhyme. All novelists have had occasion at some time or other to wish with Falstaff that they knew where a commodity of good names was to be had. On such an occasion the Author chanced to call to memory a rhyme recording three names of the manors forfeited by the ancestor of the celebrated Hampden, for striking the Black Prince a blow with his racket, when they quarrelled at tennis : Tring, Wing, and Ivanhoe, For striking of a blow, Hampden did forego, And glad he could...
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