#172 in Historical fiction
Ivanhoe
- 488
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
- Film 1952 +10
- On screen
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Our view
“Ivanhoe” is the medieval adventure that set the pattern for historical fiction: knights, battles, valour, and Robin Hood among the cast. Its picture of an age of chivalry is the main reward, and Scott lets doubt in too, through Rebecca, who asks what such glory is worth. Some readers never feel drawn into the tale, and some remark that the title hero spends a long stretch of it injured and offstage.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in December 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. The Waverley novels are considered seminal to the genre of historical fiction, and Ivanhoe became by far the best-known entry in the whole cycle of nearly thirty books.
Reading order · Waverley Novels
Full order & progress →- WaverleyStart here
–Not ranked yet - Guy Mannering
–Not ranked yet - The Antiquary
–Not ranked yet - Rob Roy
–Not ranked yet - IvanhoeThis book
7.67.6 / 10 - Kenilworth
–Not ranked yet - The Pirate
–Not ranked yet - The Fortunes of Nigel
–Not ranked yet - Peveril of the Peak
–Not ranked yet - Quentin Durward
–Not ranked yet - St. Ronan's Well
–Not ranked yet - Redgauntlet
–Not ranked yet - Woodstock
–Not ranked yet - The Siege of Malta
–Not ranked yet - Bizarro
–Not ranked yet
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen 11 times — from 1913 to 2000.
- FilmIvanhoeIMDb
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- Short filmIvanhoeIMDb
- FilmThe Ballad of the Valiant Knight IvanhoeIMDb
- SeriesIvanhoeIMDb
- FilmIvanhoeIMDb
- SeriesDark KnightIMDb
- TV filmYoung IvanhoeIMDb
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Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.2 across 175 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 54% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Historical fiction average of 8.0. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.1 | 15 | 9% |
| Hardcover | 7.2 | 160 | 91% |
Frequently asked
How long is Ivanhoe?
It has 488 pages — longer than 60% of the ranked books in Historical fiction.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
If you liked this
Same shelf — Historical fiction — with scores between 6.6 and 8.4, closest to this book.
