Walter Scott
1) Ivanhoe
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"More than a century after the Norman Conquest, England remains a colony of foreign warlords. Prince John plans to seize his brother's crown, his barons terrorize the country, and the mysterious outlaw Robin Hood haunts the ancient greenwood. With the secret return of King Richard and the disinherited Saxon knight Ivanhoe, Scott unfurls his splendid and tumultuous romance, featuring the tournament at Ashby-de-la-Zouch and the clash of will between...
3) Rob Roy
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Rob Roy is the fourth in Scotty's Waverley Novels series. Featuring the unusual and lively title character, the novel was said to be one of Robert Louis Stevenson's favorite books from childhood.
4) Kenilworth
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Dana, Estes & Company
Pub. Date
[c1893]
Description
This book is the sixth in Scott's Waverley Novels series. Kenilworth follows the story of the secret marriage of Earl Robert Dudley and his romance with Queen Elizabeth I. This story is largely a true one and while the ending of the novel was based mostly on speculation of the time, critics have applauded Scott's accurate retelling of the events.
5) Redgauntlet
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1985
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"In the summer of 1765 Darsie Latimer sets out to discover the secret of his parentage in a journey to the wilds of Dumfriesshir. But very soon he discovers that he must confront not geographical but ideological wilds, for he is kidnapped by Edward Hugh Redgauntlet and involved in a last, fictional attempt to restore the Stuarts to the British throne. His Edinburgh friend, the advocate Alan Fairford, seeks to find him, and finds modes of life which...
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Everyman's library volume no. 134
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Set in eighteenth-century Scotland during the Porteus riots, tells the story of young Jeanie Deans, a dairymaid who travels to London seeking mercy for her sister who stands accused of infanticide.
7) Ivanhoe
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005?]
Description
Adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's classic tale set in England in the Middle Ages. Also includes a Tom and Jerry cartoon, The Two Mouseketeers, and a swashbuckler movie trailer gallery.