Ivanhoe

Complete and unabridged, with 99 full-page plates by Richard Wilson, J. M. W. Turner and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A disinherited knight rides into a tournament in the England of Richard's captivity, where Saxon and Norman still hate each other and a Jewish moneylender's daughter is worth more to the plot than the heroine. Scott invented most of what people now picture as the Middle Ages in this one...