Ivanhoe , by Sir Walter Scott , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics :
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Medieval England. King Richard the Lion-hearted, coming home from the Crusades, has been captured and imprisoned in Austria. His wicked brother, John, has seized the throne and refuses to pay Richard’s ransom. Meanwhile the conflict between Saxon and Norman threatens to turn into civil war.
Standing above it all is Wilfred of Ivanhoe, the disinherited son of Cedric, a Saxon noble. Ivanhoe enraged his father by following the Norman Richard to the Crusades. Now back in England, he wants to help rescue Richardand marry Cedric’s ward, Rowena. But Cedric has pledged her to a highborn Saxon in hopes of creating a new Saxon royal line. To this mix Walter Scott adds several ferocious Norman villains, the legendary Robin Hood, a Shakespearean wise fool” who constantly offers wryly sardonic comments on the action, and a sidelong look at English anti-Semitism, as a pair of Jewish characters, the beautiful Rebecca and her father, Isaac of York, alternately protect and garner protection from Ivanhoe.
With its clanging swords, burning castles, damsels in distress, and kings in disguise, Ivanhoe remains Scott’s best-loved novel of historical romance. Gillen D'Arcy Wood was born in Australia, and came to New York on a Fulbright Scholarship in 1992. He took his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2000, and is now Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of an historical novel, Hosack’s Folly (other Press, 2005), and a cultural history of Romantic literature and art, The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 17601860 (Palgrave, 2001), as well as numerous articles on nineteenth-century British literature and culture.
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評分司各特的書妙趣橫生,文學價值與可讀性均高,這一本更是好讀得很 而最有趣的是序,充滿特定時期的意識形態,由於馬剋思著作中批駁過獅心王理查,所以司各特在書中將理查塑造為正麵形象這一點被作序者大加抨擊,被冠以意識形態之類的大帽子,雖然司各特在書中清楚的寫到理查是一...
評分 評分司各特的書充滿瞭浪漫主義氣息,尤其對人物場景的描述有令人驚嘆的功力。雖然站在通篇全文的曆史角度,每個人都有其局限性,不過對於我等非文學工作者的普通百姓來說,看書就圖個心靈愉悅,關於這點要求,司各特的《英雄艾文荷》完全做到瞭,與之相比,不得不說《紫艾草騎士》...
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