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Ivanhoe by Walter Scott

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36,000 words, approx. 120 pages
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Ivanhoe eBook
171,055 words, approx. 570 pages
The complete online text of Ivanhoe by Walter Scott.


Author Biography

Name: Walter Scott, Sir
Birth Date: August 15, 1771
Death Date: September 21, 1832
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland
Place of Death: Abbotsford, Scotland
Nationality: Scottish
Gender: Male
Occupations: author

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Biography of Walter Scott, Sir
921 words, approx. 3.1 pages
The Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is the acknowledged master of the historical novel. He was one of the most influential authors of modern times. Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh on August 15, 1771, the son of a lawyer with a...
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Biography of Walter Scott, Sir
8558 words, approx. 28.5 pages
Walter Scott was the most influential novelist in world literature. Relying on his capacious memory and drawing on medieval and Renaissance verse romance, his eighteenth-century forerunners in the novel, contemporary women writers of "national tales" and...


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Ivanhoe Summary
3,673 words, approx. 12 pages
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott Sit Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1771. Scotland had only recently (in 1707) united with England to form the United Kingdom. At the time of union, Scotland was still a relatively undeveloped country, with...
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Ivanhoe Information
2,601 words, approx. 9 pages
Ivanhoe is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. It was written in 1819 and set in 12th century England, an example of historical fiction. Ivanhoe is sometimes given credit for helping to increase popular interest in the middle ages in 19th century Europe and...


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The New York Observer
Saturday, September 29th
9/25/2007: 361 words, approx. 1 pages
Yummy versus yoga! The James Beard Foundation, long promoting a unilateral foodie agenda, celebrates its 20th anniversary by hosting a food festival at—where else—Williams-Sonoma! Illustrious pillar of French cooking Daniel Boulud signs his cookbook and gives cooking demonstrations for a room full of hungry maniacs...
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Investor's Business Daily
Emerging Markets Drive World Equity; China Funds Advanced 29% In Qtr
10/2/2007: 724 words, approx. 2 pages
World equity funds returned 6.75% in September, putting them ahead of U.S. stock funds, which rose 3.53%. Outsized returns from China and Latin America got most of the attention. The two regions brought investors a return of 15.75% and 13.35% in the month, respectively. For...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Michael Ragussis
15,464 words, approx. 52 pages
In the following essay, Ragussis argues that Scott's depiction of the conflict between Jewish and Anglo-Saxon traditions suggests that history proceeds through the synthesis of cultures rather than the preservation of homogeneous racial identity.
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Critical Essay by Chris R. Vanden Bossche
9,994 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Bossche claims that Ivanhoe, as a work of historical fiction, attempts to bridge the distance between past and present by mingling elements of an earlier culture with more familiar political and social issues.
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Critical Essay by Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
9,526 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following excerpt, an early reviewer describes the plot and characters of Ivanhoe, and praises the complexity and originality of the work.
 
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Essay Grade: 88%
Journey to a Free Man
911 words, approx. 3 pages
Essay discusses Gurth's struggles from slave to a free man in the book "Ivanhoe" by Sir Walter Scott Gurth.
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Codes of Chivalry Comparison in "Ivanhoe"
519 words, approx. 2 pages
A comparison of the codes of chivalry between the knights Ivanhoe and Guilbert in Richard Thorpe's movie "Ivanhoe." Through the codes of chivalry, one could easily determine the characteristics of the knights, as the codes helped to distinguish the bad from the good.


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Ivanhoe by Walter Scott

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