The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
By Howard Pyle
Cover: Robin Hood illustration (1883) by Howard Pyle (1853–1911) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1911)
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire is an 1883 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. Pyle compiled the traditional Robin Hood ballads as a series of episodes of a coherent narrative. For his characters' dialog, Pyle adapted the late Middle English of the ballads into a dialect suitable for children.
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Table of contents
- 1: How Robin Hood Came to Be an Outlaw
- 2: Robin Hood and the Tinker
- 3: The Shooting Match at Nottingham Town
- 4: Will Stutely Rescued by His Companions
- 5: Robin Hood Turns Butcher
- 6: Little John Goes to Nottingham Fair
- 7: How Little John Lived at the Sheriff's
- 8: Little John and the Tanner of Blyth
- 9: Robin Hood and Will Scarlet
- 10: The Adventure with Midge the Miller's Son
- 11: Robin Hood and Allan a Dale
- 12: Robin Hood Seeks the Curtal Friar
- 13: Robin Hood Compasses a Marriage
- 14: Robin Hood Aids a Sorrowful Knight
- 15: How Sir Richard of the Lea Paid His Debts
- 16: Little John Turns Barefoot Friar
- 17: Robin Hood Turns Beggar
- 18: Robin Hood Shoots Before Queen Eleanor
- 19: The Chase of Robin Hood
- 20: Robin Hood and Guy of Gisbourne
- 21: King Richard Comes to Sherwood Forest
- 22: Epilogue