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The King Raven Trilogy is a series of historical novels by American writer Stephen R. Lawhead, based on the Robin Hood legend. Lawhead relocates Robin Hood from Sherwood Forest in Nottingham to Wales, and sets the story in the late eleventh century, after the Battle of Hastings and to coincide with the Norman invasion of Wales and the struggles the Cymry (Welsh) people against the Normans, and ...
The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, it was opened for the first time to any work ...
Bows Against the Barons is a 1934 children's novel by the British author Geoffrey Trease, based on the legend of Robin Hood.It tells the story of an adolescent boy who joins an outlaw band and takes part in a great rebellion against the feudal elite.
National Book Award winners, 1935–1941 Year Category Author Title 1935 Biography Vincent Sheean: Personal History: Most Original Book Charles G. Finney: The Circus of Dr. Lao: Nonfiction Anne Morrow Lindbergh: North to the Orient: Novel Rachel Field: Time Out of Mind: 1936 Biography Victor Heiser: An American Doctor's Odyssey: Adventures in ...
Pages in category "Robin Hood books" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bows against the ...
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The first clear reference to "rhymes of Robin Hood" is from the alliterative poem Piers Plowman, thought to have been composed in the 1370s, followed shortly afterwards by a quotation of a later common proverb, [5] "many men speak of Robin Hood and never shot his bow", [6] in Friar Daw's Reply (c. 1402) [7] and a complaint in Dives and Pauper ...
It helped move the Robin Hood legend out of the realm of penny dreadfuls and into the realm of respected children's books. [3] After Pyle, Robin Hood became an increasingly popular subject for children's books: Louis Rhead's Bold Robin Hood and His Outlaw Band (1912) and Paul Creswick's Robin Hood (1917), illustrated by Pyle's pupil N. C. Wyeth ...