The Penguin English Library Edition" of " Ivanhoe" by Walter Scott. ' Fight on brave knights! Man dies but glory lives!'. Banished from England for seeking to marry against his father's wishes Ivanhoe joins Richard the Lion Heart on a crusade in the Holy L&. 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 between the noble King Richard & his evil & scheming brother John. The first of Scott's novels to address a purely English subject " Ivanhoe" is set in a highly romanticized medieval world of tournaments & sieges chivalry & adventure where dispossessed Saxons are pitted against their Norman overlords & where the historical & fictional seamlessly merge. " The Penguin English Library" contains 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War."