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Sir Walter Scott

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Overview

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Author

Sir Walter Scott

Year Published

1819

Type

Novel

Genre

Historical Fiction, Romance

Perspective and Narrator

Ivanhoe is told in the third person by an omniscient narrator, who chooses when and how to reveal information for the purpose of building suspense.

Tense

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott is written in the past tense.

About the Title

Ivanhoe is named for its central character, the Saxon knight Wilfred of Ivanhoe. The name comes from a children's rhyme about English King Edward III (1312–77) and his son Edmund. As compensation for an offense done to Edmund by Lord de Hampden, Edward III received three lavish properties: Tring, Wing, and Ivanhoe.

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