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The book has some flaws, but the modern style of romantic adventure novels was in its infancy. The minor characters are well treated, and the love story more complicated than some. ( ) A tale as the Saxons and Normans were beginning to compete for control of England. Yet, if aware a more profound and controversial secondary commentary also clearly comes through. Scott’s used Ivanhoe to make a not-so-subtle criticism of the medieval church. Bois-Guilbert, aTemplar Knight, kidnaps Rebecca and threatens to defile her. A clergyman, Prior Aymer, who's reputation of worldly acts such as cavorting with women, and drinks excessively. The church, highly political and hostile to the Jewish race. Anti-Semitism plays into Bois-Guilbert’s decision to put Rebecca on trial. Rebecca, a Jew, proves to be the most genuinely faithful and God-fearing character in the book. ¡Sí, estos son mis libros de la niñez! … Y en éste, y otros volúmenes a los que reúno bajo EDICIONES PEUSER, deseo rendir un humilde homenaje en primer lugar, a esta gran editorial que iluminó con literatura, a una innumerable cantidad de familias (como la mía), de conocimiento y pasión por la vida. Y vaya también las gracias a mi padre por su visión, al acercarme estas joyas literarias a mis ojos anhelantes de colosales mundos nuevos, y despacharlos colmados de viajes… entre simples baldosas. And here I was thinking I going to read another dusty old poem from the middle-ages written by some anonymous nobody. NOPE! This is in fact a historical fiction novel written in the early 19th century by Sir Walter Scott. One of those classics I clearly didn't really look into until later in my life. For the most part I really liked Ivanhoe. Good writing, adventurous, and even a page turner. The main reason I wanted to read this book was Robin Hood. Even though he appears in a few chapters, my inner child loved his parts. As I've grown up though I've become interested in King Richard and Prince John as well. My only negative thought on this book was the way it was written. As I said it well written, but it's difficult. It took me awhile to get into the langue. There are phrases and world that we don't use today and I wasn't use to as well. Penguin's edition has a ton of notes to make it a little easier. It's probably a good thing I recently read Robin Hood earlier this year too, which as a similar style of English. I'm really glad I read this though. I'll admit knights and the middle-ages can get a little boring for me because I kind of think it's an overdone genre. Yet here I am reading and liking a book that takes place during the Crusades, then again I like Robin Hood. It is hard to know what to say about Ivanhoe. It is part Robin Hood style adventure, part history and full of thematic richness. I was surprised that Ivanhoe himself figures into this tale somewhat sporadically. There are many characters who receive more in depth development, and the Jewess Rebecca is more fully developed than the heroine, Rowena. The attitudes toward Jews in the novel make one uncomfortable in the same way that you feel when reading The Merchant of Venice. It is obvious that Scott himself does not sanction this view of Jews, but even the characters who admire and are helped by Rebecca make comments regarding being defiled by her presence or touch. I constantly had to attempt to put myself into the time in question and remind myself that this is history and to have written it any other way would have been false. It is easy to see why Sir Walter Scott was a popular writer in his time and has survived. The story is fun, in the same way tales of King Arthur and his Knights are. The descriptions of the lists and tournaments are vivid portrayals. There are plot surprises, there is laughter, particularly in the forms of a jester and a Thane, and there is familiarity in the characters that we have seen time and again from this era, Richard the Lion-Hearted, Robin Hood and his Merry Men, and the evil King John. no reviews | add a review
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Relates the adventures of the Saxon knight Ivanhoe in 1194, the year of Richard the Lion-Hearted's return from the Third Crusade. No library descriptions found. |
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