Ivanhoe. Quentin Durward

Walter Scott is one of the greatest writers in world literature, a historian who revived long-gone eras, and a connoisseur of human hearts. Artists created paintings based on his novels, composers wrote operas. “I read Walter Scott and the Bible,” wrote Pushkin to his wife from Bolshoye. Belinsky called W. Scott “Columbus in the field of art,” “Shakespeare and Homer” of the historical novel. This edition includes two of Walter Scott's most famous novels. The novel “Ivanhoe” transports the reader to medieval England: a young knight, returning from the Crusades, must defend his honor and win the love of the beautiful Lady Rowena. The action of the novel “Quentin Durward” takes place in France in the 15th century, during times of long wars and court intrigues, and tells about the adventures of a Scottish archer from the guard of the French king. The texts are accompanied by magnificent, rare illustrations by Charles Edmund Brock (for the novel “Ivanhoe”) and Grigory Philippovsky (for the novel “Quentin Durward”).