The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire is an 1883 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. Consisting of a series of episodes in the story of the English outlaw Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men, the novel compiles traditional material into a coherent narrative in a colorful, invented “old English” idiom preserving some flavor of the ballads and adapts it for children. The novel is notable for taking the subject of Robin Hood, increasingly popular through the Nineteenth Century, in a new direction influencing later writers, artists, and filmmakers through the next century.