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Robin Hood


Wordsworth Classics

No. of pages 288

Published: 2018

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Great for age 8-18 years

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Robin Hood is perhaps the greatest of all British folk heroes. Henry Gilbert's book assembles all the disparate elements of the legend into an elegiac and detailed version of Robin's life and adventures. The book re-conceives all the familiar set-pieces of the story that gives to the whole the grandeur of an epic.

Robin Hood is a dashing romantic hero, an enemy of injustice and a friend to the downtrodden and he emerges from the text as a vivid and fully rounded individual. All the regular characters are here, too, including Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet and Maid Marian. And of course the villainous Guy of Gisborne and the Sherriff of Nottingham play their usual dastardly roles in the drama.

Gilbert's tale begins with an account of why Robin becomes an outlaw and then how he assembles a group of supporters, a band of dispossessed men, sick to death of oppression by the ruling class, who choose a life under Robin Hood in preference to their brutal former existences. While the tale is essentially a merry romp, it also paints a vivid picture of the times, the cruelty, the poverty and the fragility of human life. The novel is a wonderful, engaging realisation of the saga of Robin Hood.

 

This book is part of a book series called Wordsworth Classics .

There are 288 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Wordsworth Editions Ltd .

This book contains the following story:

Robin Hood
Whether or not there was ever a real Robin Hood, the stories about him have been told over and over again for centuries. How outlaws rescued him from the evil Sheriff of Nottingham, how Maid Marian joined them, how they robbed the rich to feed the poor and rescued innocent children from the gallows.

This book is in the following series:

Children Classics

Wordsworth Classics

Arcturus Childrens Classics

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