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Enter Sherwood Forest, where Robin Hood’s daring deeds turn adventure into legend.
Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood brings the legendary figure into the world of Sherwood Forest. Daring deeds and legendary feats lie at the heart of this classic, inviting you to follow Robin Hood into adventure.
First published in 1883, this children’s classic brings together adventure, myth, and legend. Its title promises a merry spirit alongside daring exploits: a welcome invitation for readers who want to step away from the everyday and spend time in Robin Hood’s world.
What you’ll discover
- Robin Hood at the center Follow the figure whose name gives these merry adventures their focus.
- The world of Sherwood Step into the forest setting at the heart of Robin Hood’s adventures.
- A taste for daring Explore a classic built around bold deeds and legendary feats.
- Adventure meets legend Enjoy a book where adventure shares its ground with myth and legend.
- A merry invitation Let the promise of merry adventures draw you into Robin Hood’s world.
Who will love it
Readers who love outlaw legends, merry-band adventures, quarterstaff duels, clever disguises and ballads, and anyone who wants an English forest tale told with warmth, jokes and a strong sense of fair play.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A quarrel in the woods makes an outlaw
- The Sheriff tries law, guile and might
- Robin turns butcher and fleeces the Sheriff
- Little John serves the Sheriff and meets the Tanner
- Will Scarlet, Midge and the sorrows of Allan a Dale
- Friar Tuck and the wedding in the church
- Sir Richard of the Lea pays his debts
- What the tales say about justice and fellowship
- How Pyle tells it: ballads, songs and a smiling voice
Who’s who
- Robin HoodA skilled archer and cheerful outlaw who leads the yeomen of Sherwood, robs the greedy to help the poor and loves a good jest.
- Little JohnRobin's huge, loyal right-hand man, a master of the quarterstaff who loves good food, good company and a joke at his master's expense.
- The Sheriff of NottinghamA greedy, proud official who wants Robin's reward and revenge, and who tries again and again to catch him, always in vain.
- Friar TuckA stout, merry friar of Fountain Dale who loves ale and fighting, and who happily marries lovers and joins the band.
- Will ScarletRobin's nephew, a gentleman in bright clothes who hides in Sherwood after a deadly mishap and surprises everyone with his strength.
- Allan a DaleA young minstrel with a sweet voice who is parted from his sweetheart Ellen, who is promised to an old knight, and begs the band for help.
- Sir Richard of the LeaA kind and proud knight who nearly loses his lands over a debt and wins the band's help and lasting friendship.
- The Bishop of HerefordA rich, vain churchman who loves gold and fine clothes and keeps falling into Robin's hands.
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Die lustigen Abenteuer des Robin Hood
by Howard Pyle · 1883
Robin Hood, Little John and a Sheriff who never learns trade blows, jests and feasts in Sherwood Forest.
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood is a book of linked adventures about the outlaw of Sherwood Forest, written and illustrated by the American artist Howard Pyle. It first appeared in 1883.
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A quarrel in the woods makes an outlaw
Robin Hood is eighteen, a yeoman of Locksley Town, when the Sheriff of Nottingham proclaims a shooting match with a butt of ale as the prize. He sets off through Sherwood Forest at dawn in the Maytime, whistling and thinking of his sweetheart Maid Marian. Under a great oak he comes upon fifteen of the King's foresters feasting on a huge pasty. They laugh at his bow and call it a one-penny toy, and they say his mother's milk is hardly dry on his lips.
Stung by the mockery, Robin wagers twenty marks that he can bring down the best hart in a herd far away at the end of the glade. He strings his bow with his foot, nocks a clothyard arrow, and the noblest stag of all falls dead. The foresters are furious, because the deer belong to the King and killing one can cost a man his ears. Robin simply walks away with a grim face.
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What is The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood about?
It follows Robin Hood from a quarrel that makes him an outlaw in Sherwood Forest through his adventures with Little John, Friar Tuck and others, as he outwits the Sheriff of Nottingham and helps the poor.
Who wrote The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood and when?
Howard Pyle, an American author and illustrator, wrote it and published it in 1883. He drew on old English ballads and joined them into one continuous story, adding his own pictures.
Is Robin Hood a true story?
No, it is legend. Robin Hood comes from old ballads, and Pyle places the tale in the time of King Henry the Second and Richard the Lion-Hearted, mixing real kings with comic fancy, as his preface says.
The author
Howard Pyle
1853–1911 · American illustrator and author
Howard Pyle (1853–1911) was an American illustrator and author born in Wilmington, Delaware. He wrote The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883), Men of Iron (1891), and The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (1903). He lived mainly in Wilmington and moved to Florence, Italy, in 1910, dying there in 1911.
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