Ivanhoe
1819 · 496 pages
Scott built the Middle Ages everyone still pictures: tournaments, Norman lords over conquered Saxons, Robin Hood in the greenwood, and Rebecca, a Jewish healer tried for witchcraft, who takes the novel over.
★ 5.6
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Fire in the Lake
1972 · 500 pages
Americans in Vietnam were fighting a country they never tried to understand, FitzGerald argues, explaining Confucian village order and the mandate of heaven to readers whose sons were still being sent there.
★ 5.9