Harper Collins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved essential classics. Wilfred of Ivanhoe is a Saxon loyal to the Norman king Richard I. Because of this loyalty & his love for Lady Rowena Ivanhoe is cast out by his father a Saxon loyalist determined to liberate the Saxon people from Norman rule. He plans to marry Rowena his ward & a descendant of the Saxon king Alfred to Lord Aethelstane pretender to the throne of Engl&. In so doing Ivanhoe would unite two rival Saxon houses in their claim for the crown. Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades in secret & is joined in his plans to re-establish Richard on the thrown by the moneylender Isaac of York his daughter Rebecca the mysterious Black Knight Lady Rowena & Robin Hood & his merry men.