An abridged Sinhala rendering of Ivanhoe, the novel by Sir Walter Scott. The whole text is in Sinhala, so a reader without the language will not be able to use it; Premasiri Mahingoda is the name on the Sinhala version, published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena.
Scott's story is set in medieval England, at a time when power in the country was held by the Normans, and it is built around the fortunes of one noble family. Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe falls out of his father's favour because of the loyalty he shows to King Richard, a Norman king, and that breach sets the action going. Scott wrote it as a realist novel, working from the social divisions and loyalties of the period rather than from romance alone.
Being an abridgement, this is a shortened telling rather than a full translation of the English text. That makes it suited to Sinhala readers coming to Scott for the first time, to students, and to anyone who wants the narrative without the length of the original. It also belongs to the long practice of translating English fiction into Sinhala for a local readership, which Gunasena has published for generations of school and general readers.
Useful for Sinhala-speaking households abroad keeping up reading in the language, and for anyone assembling a shelf of Sinhala translations of European fiction.
- Author: Premasiri Mahingoda
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552116575
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