The Adventures of Robin Hood (Award Essential Classics) - Hardcover

Howard Pyle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1782700455 ISBN 13: 9781782700456

Publisher: Award Publications Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

In the heart of Sherwood Forest hides Robin Hood and his band of mischievous outlaws. Join their thrilling adventures as they fight for good and confront their arch adversary, the dastardly Sherriff of Nottingham. Full of wit and humor, courage and friendship, Howard Pyle's enduring retelling of the legend of Robin Hood is an exhilarating and entertaining read.

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About the Author:

Howard Pyle (1853-1911) was an American illustrator and writer, primarily of books for young audiences. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. In 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 called the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art. The term the Brandywine School was later applied to the illustration artists and Wyeth family artists of the Brandywine region by Pitz (later called the Brandywine School). Some of his more famous students were Olive Rush, N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Elenore Abbott, Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle, Allen Tupper True, and Jessie Willcox Smith. His 1883 classic The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood remains in print to this day, and his other books, frequently with medieval European settings, include a four-volume set on King Arthur that cemented his reputation. He wrote an original work, Otto of the Silver Hand, in 1888. He also illustrated historical and adventure stories for periodicals such as Harper's Weekly and St. Nicholas Magazine. His Men of Iron was made into a movie in 1954, The Black Shield of Falworth. Pyle travelled to Florence, Italy to study mural painting in 1910, and died there in 1911 of sudden kidney infection (Bright's Disease).

About this edition

• Publisher: Award Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1782700455
• ISBN 13: 9781782700456
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Anna Award
• Illustrator: Katy Jackson