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Rent Ivanhoe
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Narrator: Michael Page
Format: Unabridged-MP3
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: Oct 2005
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Retail Price: $29.95
Discs: 1
Synopsis
A century has passed since the Norman Conquest, and England is still a colony of foreign warlords. Prince John is plotting to seize the throne from his brother, Richard the Lion-Hearted, and Robin Hood and his merry band are making fools out of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Wilfred, knight of Ivanhoe, the son of Cedric the Saxon, is in love with his father's ward, Rowena. Cedric, however, wishes her to marry Athelstane, a descendant of the royal Saxon line, whom Cedric hopes will restore the Saxon succession. With a colorful cast of chivalric knights and fair ladies, this action-filled novel comes complete with feats of derring-do, the pageantry of a tournament, and a great flame-engulfed castle - all of which makes it the most enthralling of Scott's creations.
Reviews
BooksFree has two audiobook versions of Ivanhoe. The other audiobook is read by Frederick Davidson in an effete, aristocratic style better suited to reading Oscar Wilde than a story of Twelfth Century knights. But this version is read by Michael Page - and what a difference! Page does it just right and never overdoes it. The men growl, the women are honest and demure, the Norman rulers are unctuous, and the Saxon men are, well, real men. Michael Page makes Sir Walter's occasionally dense verbiage easy to understand and follow. Great stuff.