Ivanhoe: A Romance Romance ebook Scott, Walter Diesel eBooks

Other Classics & Drama Categories
Drama General (105) Classics (1466) American (60) Classical/Medieval (52) Continental European (60) English, Irish, Scot (183) Shakespeare (164)

Fiction eBooks
General Fiction Romance Erotica Fantasy Science Fiction Mystery & Detective Suspense & Thrillers Action & Adventure Children's Fiction Classics & Drama Literary & Poetry Free eBook downloads

Last Viewed

Download Free eBook Readers
Mobipocket Reader Microsoft MS Reader Adobe Reader Palm eReader
To browse or view on: Pocket PC PDA Palm PDA Handspring PDA Wireless Phone Personal PC

Talk To Us

If you notice any site errors or have an idea, we'd love to hear it no matter how small.

Your first time?

We recommend you download one of our test eBooks to make sure you have the right settings on your computer.

Thanks for your help - you are again owners of a first rate online service and I'm relieved as I love the speedy service you run and think it's the best ebook shop on the internet.

A. Swift
United Kingdom

Home > Classics & Drama > Classics > Ivanhoe: A Romance-eBook

Ivanhoe: A Romance

Scott, Walter

Retail:

Our price:

Discount next order:

Your effective price:

Total savings:

Adobe

$ 4.95
$ 4.44
$-0.56
$ 3.88
$ 1.07

Wishlist

M-soft

$ 4.95
$ 4.65
$-0.58
$ 4.07
$ 0.88

Wishlist

receive alert on new titles by this Romance ebook author

Romance ebook title: Ivanhoe: A Romance

"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. "

Adobe Settings

Read Aloud:	No
Copying:	Not allowed
Printing:	Not allowed

Title of Romance ebook: Ivanhoe: A Romance
ISBN: 9780679641872
Romance Publisher: Random House
Internet download file size: 866 kb
Released online for download: 10-23-2000
Author of eBook: Scott, Walter

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. The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Wharncliffe Park, and around Rotherham. Here haunted of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley; here were fought many of the most desperate battles during the Civil Wars of the Roses; and here also flourished in ancient times those bands of gallant outlaws whose deeds have been rendered so popular in English song.

Such being our chief scene, the date of our story refers to a period towards the end of the reign of Richard I., when his return from his long captivity had become an event rather wished than hoped for by his despairing subjects, who were in the meantime subjected to every species of subordinate oppression. The nobles, whose power had become exorbitant during the reign of Stephen, and whom the prudence of Henry the Second had scarce reduced into some degree of subjection to the crown, had now resumed their ancient license in its ... read full excerpt from Ivanhoe: A Romance ebook