Zusammenfassung
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Für wen es gedacht ist
For readers who love Victorian historical romance, the Robin Hood legend and tales of forest and chivalry, with questions of honour, loyalty and justice.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
Forest Days is a historical romance by G. P. R. James, the English novelist who wrote dozens of such books in the years after Walter Scott made the form popular. It appeared in 1843 and draws on the old legend of Robin Hood, the outlaw of Sherwood Forest.
The book belongs to a kind of fiction that sets invented lives against a real medieval past. You meet an England of castles, abbeys, greenwood paths and sharp divisions of rank. You also meet the long habit of telling stories about outlaws who defy unjust power. Let us look first at the world the story is built on.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1The legend gives the book its groundFree
- 2Sherwood Forest is a world apart
- 3Old England is a land of rival loyalties
- 4A Victorian storyteller shapes the telling
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The legend gives the book its ground
Robin Hood is one of the best-loved figures in English storytelling. He lives in the forest, takes the side of the poor and stands against those who misuse authority. Ballads about him were sung for centuries before any novelist took him up.
By the 1800s the legend had been retold many times, and Scott's Ivanhoe had given him a fresh place in the popular mind. James writes in that tradition. He uses the greenwood as a setting where ordinary rules of rank and law can be questioned.
For a reader, this means familiar pleasures. There is a forest world with its own customs, a hero who is both brave and generous, and a sense that the woods hold a different kind of justice from the courts and castles beyond them.
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What is Forest Days by G. P. R. James about?
It is a historical romance of 1843 set in medieval England and drawn from the Robin Hood legend. It places outlaws, forest life and questions of loyalty and justice against the world of lords and churchmen.
Is Forest Days a true story?
No. It is a work of fiction. Robin Hood is a legendary figure, and the book mixes invented characters and events with a loosely imagined medieval England in the style of nineteenth century historical romance.
Who was G. P. R. James?
He was a prolific English novelist who died in 1860. He wrote many historical romances in the tradition of Walter Scott, and Richelieu, published in 1829, was his first novel.
Is Forest Days hard to read?
No. The story rests on the Robin Hood legend, which most people already know, with a brave and generous hero in the greenwood. The narrator also speaks straight to you about right and wrong, so the story is easy to follow from the first page.
When was Forest Days written?
It was published in 1843, during the early Victorian period, when historical romances about knights, outlaws and medieval life were widely read and the Robin Hood legend was popular.