The Adventures of Robin Hood
This is the classic story of social justice and outrageous cunning. Robin Hood is champion of the poor and oppressed by twelfth-century England against the cruel power of Prince John and the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham. He takes refuge with his Merrie Men in the vast Sherwood Forest, emerging...
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This is the classic story of social justice and outrageous cunning. Robin Hood is champion of the poor and oppressed by twelfth-century England against the cruel power of Prince John and the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham. He takes refuge with his Merrie Men in the vast Sherwood Forest, emerging time and again to outwit his enemies with daring and panache.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140367003 (0140367004)
Publish date: December 1st 1995
Publisher: Puffin
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
"The Adventures of Robin Hood" is Green's attempt to gather and organize all the legends and myths of Robin Hood in one complete storyline. Of course the chapters are very episodic and fragmental as a consequence of the original material, but Green manages fairly good. There's a great sense of conti...
I've read several versions of the classic Robin Hood story - at least four not including this one, and maybe one or two more. I've loved Robin Hood since I was about six or seven years old and watched the Disney, and honestly I've never come across a version that I disliked. No matter what they do t...