"Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives on!" Ivanhoe, banished from England for his desire to marry against his father's wishes, joins Richard the Lionheart on a crusade to the Holy Land. Upon his return, he yearns to be reunited with the beautiful but forbidden Lady Rowena. Soon, however, he becomes embroiled in a more dangerous game and is drawn into a bitter power struggle between the noble King Richard and his malicious, scheming brother John. Ivanhoe, Scott's first novel to deal with a purely English subject, is set in a highly romanticized medieval world of tournaments and sieges, chivalry and adventure, where dispossessed Saxons resist their Norman overlords and where historical and fictional elements seamlessly blend. This edition is based on the renowned Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Romans, the first edition of which was prepared from Scott's original texts. It includes an introduction highlighting Scott's use of history in light of contemporary thinking, as well as a chronology, bibliography, glossary, and extensive notes.