Ivanhoe Annotated

Ivanhoe is a historical novel by Walter Scott, first published in late 1819 in three volumes, one of the Waverley novels.

At the time it was written it represented a shift by Scott away from fairly realistic novels set in Scotland in the comparatively recent past, to a somewhat fanciful depiction of medieval England.

It has proved to be one of the best known and most influential of Scott's novels.