Ivengo. Scott V.

Walter Scott is one of the greatest writers of world literature, a historian who resurrected the long -past eras, and a connoisseur of human hearts. Based on his novels, artists created paintings, composers - operas. “I read Walter Scott and the Bible,” Pushkin wrote to his wife from Boldin (by the way, it was about the novel “Aivengo” presented in the present edition, in French translation). Belinsky called V. Scott “Columbus in the field of art”, “Shakespeare and Homer” of the historical novel. The writer Balzac considered his teacher.

“Aivengo” is a key work in the cycle of V. Scott's novels, which transfer us to medieval England. The young knight of Aivengo, secretly returning from the Crusade to his homeland and the will of the father of the deprived of the inheritance, will have to defend his honor and love to the beautiful Lady Rowena... King Richard Lion's Heart and the legendary robber Robin Hood will come to his aid.