From the Pleasure Reading Series. Among Sir Walter Scott's many novels, Ivanhoeis one of the most popular. It stands the test of a good story in that it can be read again and again, with continued interest. Its characters become almost like people that one had known personally. From the book, we get a picture of the heroic character, Richard the Lion-Hearted, King of England, who appears in Ivanhoe. And also from Ivanhoe come many of our impressions of that famous character, Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest, the outlaw who was a foe of evil rulers but a friend of the poor.