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One of the BBCs 100 Novels That Shaped Our WorldThe Penguin English Library Edition of Ivanhoe by Walter ScottFight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives!Banished from England for seeking to marry against his fathers wishes, Ivanhoe joins Richard the Lion Heart on a crusade in the Holy Land. On his return, his passionate desire is to be reunited with the beautiful but forbidden lady Rowena, but he soon finds himself playing a more dangerous game as he is drawn into a bitter power struggle...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.''Set just before the Jacobite Rising in 1715, Scott drew upon the political and economic struggles leading up to the rebellion and the tumultuous history of the Highlands in his classic adventure novel Rob Roy. Despite the book''s title, Frank Osbaldistone is the protagonist, travelling through England and the Scottish Highlands to collect a debt owed to hi...

From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characters. The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor was already a legendary, disputed figure by the time Scott wrote - a heroic Scottish Robin Hood to some, an over-glamorised, unprincipled predator to others.Scott approaches Rob Roy indirectly, through the adventures of his fictional hero, Frank Osbaldistone, amid the political turmoil of England and Scotland in 171...