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title: "The Adventures of Robin Hood"
brand: "howard pyle"
price: "R417"
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reviews_count: 23
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# The Adventures of Robin Hood

**Brand:** howard pyle
**Price:** R417
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- **What is this?** The Adventures of Robin Hood by howard pyle
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## Description

About the Author
          
          
            
              Howard Pyle was born on March 5, 1853 in Wilmington, Delaware. In 1894, he taught art at the Drexel Institute and in 1900 founded the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art. Although he did not actually create the legends of the characters, nor have much regard for historical accuracy, he did write and illustrate stories about pirates, King Arthur and of course, &#x201C;The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood.&#x201D; Vincent Van Gogh was a fan of Pyle&#x2019;s. Howard traveled to Italy to study mural painting in 1910 and died on November 9, 1911 in Florence of a kidney infection.

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## Customer Reviews

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    Don Your Green Tights
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 July 2017*

It’s time to forget about your worries and be transported back to Merrie Olde England with probably Howard Pyle’s most famous novel.  Although I write  that this is a novel, to be more precise it is probably best to describe this book as a collection of interconnected short tales, as each chapter is another adventure in the life of that most famous of outlaws.Starting off with when Robin poaches on the King’s land in Sherwood Forest and then kills a man so we follow him onwards as he turns to robbing the rich to give to the poor, and meeting those characters who join his band of merry men.  Of course there is always that dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham with his machinations to capture Robin.Giving the tale of Robin Hood an oomph Pyle is arguably responsible for the films and other children’s books about the character that have appeared since, and made this outlaw into someone almost respectable, and not what older tales and ballads told about Robin.Entertaining children and adults since 1883 it is time to don those green tights and get out the bow and arrows, and lose yourself in some great escapism.

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    An interconnected series of short stories
  

*by N***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 April 2019*

An interconnected series of short stories about one of England's greatest adventurers the unreal Robin Hood!  Cue drum roll!  Was not a massive fan of this book, it was just about okay, but it didn't really hold my interest and I jumped to the end to read about his death in a nunnery.  Yes well, he would have to have a different ending than the ordinary man!  I wouldn't want to read this book again and have already deleted it.

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    The Robin Hood legends for the younger child.
  

*by B***D on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 May 2013*

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood  Howard Pyle Pub.1883  Kindle EditionI had already been collecting Robin Hood  related books for several years when I obtained my first copy of the Pyle version at about 12 years old and remember being a little disappointed that it was targeted at a younger reader demographic, but that same 1940's copy is still in my collection.`The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire' the original full title;  was written by Howard Pyle (1853-1911) who was an American illustrator and author of childrens books in 1883 and was the first retelling of the traditional English legends written specifically for the American juvenile market and is still probably the most popular anthology of Robin Hood stories for the younger child.  Pyle included most of the traditional tales and ballads in his book but the stories were simplified and romanticised to make them more suitable for young children, and was a key protagonist in changing the image of the traditional hero from a rogue and bandit to the loveable character better recognised today.  In Pyle's version of the stories Robin kills only one man, that in self defence, and spreads the idea throughout the tales of Robin Hood robbing the rich to give to the poor, something alluded to in only one of the traditional ballads.  Historical accuracy was of little concern and Pyle changed many of the names of historical characters and followed Walter Scott's precedence in setting the stories firmly during the reign of Richard the Lion-Hearted with the primary villians Prince John Lackland and his political allies in the shires and church.The main curiosity of Pyles work is that the whole volume was written in a fanciful mock archaic style with a lot of curious mis-spellings of common words to give a medieval effect, for example `Fayre' for Fair, the first known usage of a mock OE spelling which has crept into common usage on both sides of the atlantic but is pure invention.Never-the-less Pyles tales are good fun and an excellent introduction to the legends for the under elevens.  Both of my older granddaughters had copies and enjoyed the stories at that age.There are numerous versions of the Pyle stories with various titles all of which stick fairly close to the original.This Kindle edition is substantially free of errors and will well formatted with an active index.  4/5

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