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Meet the Book
This is the book’s own stage: Robin Hood — from Pyle’s own frontispiece drawing — stands on the stage, while Pyle’s 1883 telling of the old ballads is read aloud in Alan’s voice: how Robin came to be an outlaw, Little John on the bridge, Will Scarlet, Allan a Dale, Friar Tuck, and the Sheriff of Nottingham tales. The bookstore barcode rides every frame — scan any moment to come back to this bookstore.
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What’s Inside
- Pyle’s book, Preface, Prologue and Parts First–Fourth complete: The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883) — the old ballads, sung since the 1400s, fused for the first time into one flowing tale: Robin made an outlaw and the gathering of the band, the Sheriff of Nottingham tales, Little John at the Sheriff’s, and Allan a Dale and the Curtal Friar, closing with the marriage Robin compasses.
- About 5 hours 7 minutes of narration — Alan reads the book aloud in English, page by page, in a reading room you can follow with your eyes, while Robin Hood stands on the stage.
- Pyle’s own pictures throughout — Howard Pyle wrote the book and drew it: the Bridge, the gathering of the band, and all the volume’s plates stand whole in the gallery.
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This is the public-domain text: Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1883), presented as a talking hologram book — Pyle’s own words and Pyle’s own pictures, nothing added and nothing taken away. An honest word, printed on this book’s face as it is in its disclaimer: Robin Hood is England’s oldest adventure story, not a recorded life — tales of him were already old when a poet first mentioned them in the 1300s, and this book claims the story, not a history. The narration is a synthesized English reading (Piper — Alan) of this text, made for this edition. Editor: Franklin Langston.
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