Robin Hood
by Howard Pyle
1990Children's fictionRobin hood (legendary character), fictionAdventure and adventurers, fictionEngland, fictionFiction, action & adventure
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Open LibraryFirst lines
IN MERRY ENGLAND in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades of Sherwood Forest, near Nottingham Town, a famous outlaw whose name was Robin Hood.
About this book
Recounts the legend of Robin Hood, who plundered the king's purse and poached his deer and whose generosity endeared him to the poor.
Themes & subjects
Children's fictionRobin hood (legendary character), fictionAdventure and adventurers, fictionEngland, fictionFiction, action & adventureRobin Hood (Legendary character)
First published 1990About the author
Howard Pyle
5 March 1853 – 9 November 1911
Howard Pyle was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. During 1894 he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry (now Drexel University), and after 1900 he founded his own school of art and illustration named the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art. The term Brandywine School was later applied to the illustration artists and Wyeth family artists of the Brandywine region by Pitz. Some of his more famous students were N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Elenore Abbott, Ethel Franklin Betts, Anna Whelan Betts, Harvey Dunn, Clyde O. DeLand, Philip R. Goodwin, Violet Oakley, Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle, Olive Rush, Allen Tup…
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