Ivanhoe: Clasicos para ninos - Softcover

Scott, Walter

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9789706437518: Ivanhoe: Clasicos para ninos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9706437517 ISBN 13: 9789706437518

Publisher: Selector, S.A. de C.V., 2018

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Ivanhoe es la historia de un cruzado que ama a su pa�s y lucha por �l; tambi�n es un relato de amor y traici�n; de amor a la Patria, a los hermosos paisajes que conforman las regiones de Inglaterra; a las tradiciones, ya las dos bellas e inteligentes protagonistas de esta novela, la rubia y majestuosa Rowena y la morena y sabia Rebeca. De traici�n a la familia; a los amigos, a la religi�n y a todos los valores nacionales. De estos amores y traiciones, nos cuenta Walter Scott, surge la poderosa Inglaterra, la Bella Albi�n y, algo m�s: Ivanhoe adora a una estas dos mujeres por la cual har�a cualquier cosa, hasta morir...

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Review:

Ivanhoe was the first of Scott's novels to be located wholly in England, and the first to take place in the middle ages. But it is far from being the fantastic, medievalist romance associated (in the critical imagination) with a visionary Britain that never was. This is a serious novel, the first in English to deal carefully with race. And at the same time, it is an incredibly exciting read for contemporary readers. Ivanhoe was the first of Scott's novels to be located wholly in England, and the first to take place in the middle ages. But it is far from being the fantastic, medievalist romance associated (in the critical imagination) with a visionary Britain that never was. This is a serious novel, the first in English to deal carefully with race. And at the same time, it is an incredibly exciting read for contemporary readers.

From the Back Cover:

'The love of battle is the food upon which we live – the dust of the melee is the breath of our nostrils! we live not – we wish not to live – longer than while we are victorious and renowned. Such…are the laws of chivalry to which we are sworn, and to which we offer all that we hold dear.'

Set in the twelfth century, during the reign of Richard the Lionheart, 'Ivanhoe' tells of the love of Wilfred of Ivanhoe for the Lady Rowena, his father Cedric's ward. Cedric, who is dedicated to the liberation of the Saxon people from Norman oppression and to the revival of the Saxon royal line, intends Rowena – a descendant of King Alfred – for the oafish Athelstane, and he banishes his son. Ivanhoe joins King Richard on his crusade in the Holy Land, and eventually the two men return secretly to England – Ivanhoe to regain his inheritance and the land of Rowena, Richard to secure his kingdom from his scheming brother John who has ruled in Richard's absence.

With a gallery of memorable characters, high and low, 'Ivanhoe' is a powerful and exciting evocation of a medieval world of jousting, baronial rivalry, siege warfare and trial by combat, and makes no attempt to gloss over the violence and brutality that lay behind the chivalric ideals.

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