La vicenda si colloca nell'Inghilterra del XII secolo sullo sfondo dei contrasti tra sassoni e normanni. Ivanhoe, figlio di Cedric, ama, riamato, lady Rowena. Ma Cedric ha deciso di dare in moglie Rowena a Athelstane per riportara una stirpe sassone sul trono e bandisce Ivanhoe, amico del re normanno Riccardo Cuor di Leone. Il giovane va crociato al seguito di Riccardo mentre, assente il re, Giovanni usurpa il trono. Al ritorno dei crociati, Ivanhoe batte tutti i campioni dell'usurpatore. Ma i nobili normanni lo fanno prigioniero con Cedric, Rowena e Athelstane. Vengono però liberati da re Riccardo e Robin Hood. Ivanhoe e Rowena infine si sposano. Introduzione di Francesco Marrone.

"Ivanhoe" è considerato il prototipo del romanzo storico, misto di "fiction" e di "history". La sua influenza è stata enorme, e non solo in Inghilterra ma un po' dovunque in Europa. È stato - ed è tuttora - un autentico best-seller che ha ispirato numerose versioni cinematografiche e televisive. La lotta fra Giovanni Senzaterra e Riccardo Cuor di Leone per il trono d'Inghilterra, l'antagonismo fra sassoni e normanni, i valori della cavalleria, l'"allegra brigata" degli arcieri di Robin Hood costituiscono momenti appassionanti e indimenticabili di una narrazione sospesa tra romanticismo e realismo. Malgrado le apparenze, "Ivanhoe" non è soltanto un semplice romanzo di avventure, un libro di puro intrattenimento. La forma gradevole e spesso divertente e la magia del "colore locale" non gli impediscono di rappresentare una monografia romanzesca sul policromo, ma anche spietato, mondo medievale inglese. Introduzione di Mario Moretti.

After seven years of service as the president of Tulane University, Scott Cowen watched the devastation of his beloved New Orleans at the hands of Hurricane Katrina. When federal, state, and city officials couldn't find their way to decisive action, Cowen, known for his gutsy leadership, quickly partnered with a coalition of civic, business, and nonprofit leaders looking to work around the old institutions to revitalize and transform New Orleans. This team led the charge to restore equilibrium and eventually to rebuild. For the past nine years, Cowen has continued this work, helping to bring the city of New Orleans back from the brink.The Inevitable City presents 10 principles that changed the game for this city, and, if adopted, can alter the curve for any business, endeavor, community--and perhaps even a nation.This is the story of the resurgence and reinvention of one of America's greatest cities. Ordinary citizens, empowered to actively rescue their own city after politicians and government officials failed them, have succeeded in rebuilding their world. Cowen was at the leading edge of those who articulated, shaped, and implemented a vision of transformative change that has yielded surprising social progress and economic growth: a drowned city identified with the shocking images of devastation and breakdown has transformed itself into a mecca of growth, opportunity, and hope.

"The most romantic parts of this narrative are precisely those which have a foundation in fact."

Edward Waverley, a young English soldier in the Hanoverian army, is sent to Scotland where he finds himself caught up in events that quickly transform from the stuff of romance into nightmare. His character is fashioned through his experience of the Jacobite rising of 1745-6, the last civil war fought on British soil and the unsuccessful attempt to reinstate the Stuart monarchy, represented by Prince Charles Edward. Waverley's love for the spirited Flora MacIvor and his romantic nature increasingly pull him towards the Jacobite cause, and test his loyalty to the utmost.

With Waverley, Scott invented the historical novel in its modern form and profoundly influenced the development of the European and American novel for a century at least.Waverley asks the reader to consider how history is shaped, who owns it, and what it means to live in it - questions as vital at the beginning of the twenty-first century as the nineteenth.

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A century has passed since the Norman Conquest, and England is still a colony of foreign warlords.

Prince John is plotting to seize the throne from his brother, Richard the Lion-Hearted, and Robin Hood and his merry band are making fools out of the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Wilfred, knight of Ivanhoe, the son of Cedric the Saxon, is in love with his father’s ward, Rowena. Cedric, however, wishes her to marry Athelstane, a descendant of the royal Saxon line, whom Cedric hopes will restore the Saxon succession.

With a colorful cast of chivalric knights and fair ladies, this action-filled novel comes complete with feats of derring-do, the pageantry of a tournament, and a great flame-engulfed castle—all of which makes it the most enthralling of Scott’s creations.

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