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Robin of Locksley returns from the Crusades to find his people starving and oppressed by the new Sheriff of Nottingham. Under this tyrannical regime, the slightest crime attracts the heaviest punishment, and dissent is impossible. Robin soon discovers that the only way to reason with the Sheriff...

Young royal guardsman Robert Fitzooth is appointed personal protector to Princess Matilda of England as she travels across Europe to marry the German king, Henry V. What begins as a prestigious honour becomes a journey through the volatile heart of medieval power. Robert is drawn into the brutal struggle between emperor and church - and into a decades-long civil war that will shape the fate of England itself. He will fight. He will love. He will lose. Generations later, his bloodline will give the world a name that echoes through legend: Robin Hood.

Autumn 1191, and Robert, earl of Locksley, also known as the notorious outlaw Robin Hood, and his loyal lieutenant, Alan Dale, are returning home fresh from victory in the Third Crusade. They decide to travel via the Mediterranean sea-route, despite the dangers of the imminent stormy season. Disaster strikes, and Robin and his men are shipwrecked on the rocky coast of Crete.

Il Robin Hood della moderna leggenda e del folklore, fu ripreso da Alexandre Dumas nel suo romanzo Robin Hood il proscritto, scritto nel 1863, ma pubblicato postumo. Dumas si ispirò alle numerose leggende che circondavano il famoso eroe popolare. Questa versione italiana, leggermente ridotta, è della casa editrice Bietti, del 1935. Cornice musicale di Kevin Mac Leod.

Here are American author Howard Pyle's exciting and hilarious tales of Robin Hood and his merry band of outlaws, who reigned over Sherwood Forest doing many good deeds for the poor - and deserved misdeeds to the pompous and haughty rich.

Bad news! Someone has tampered with the space-time continuum, and medieval England is officially a hot mess. Robin Hood has gone bad, history is falling apart, and Destiny has made the baffling decision to hand the role of hero to a frail orphan named Will Scarlett.

It's all here: the story of how Robin lost his birthright as the King's Ranger at Locksley, his archery feats at Nottingham, the outlaws' war with the Sheriff, Robin's pursuit of Marian, and many tales of bravery, rescue, laughter and rivalry with Little John, Friar Tuck, Allan-a-Dale, Much the Miller, Will Scarlett, and all the others.Now you can have this incomparable story read to you, in a gripping full stereo audio book. The story is adapted from the Paul Creswick text. It is faithful to the entire original story.

In this thrilling, gender-swapped Robin Hood reimagining, a beautiful maiden poaches to feed the poor while a handsome forester is on a mission to catch her. A medieval historical romance from New York Times bestselling author Melanie Dickerson. The margrave owns the finest hunting grounds for...

Die wahre Geschichte von Robin Hood - überraschend neu interpretiert, rasant erzählt und genau recherchiert von Bestseller-Autor Mac P. Lorne. "Die Pranken des Löwen" ist der fulminante Auftakt der Reihe um den Meister der Diebe. England 1110 - Der junge Gardist Robert Fitzooth wird zum persönlichen Leibwächter der englischen Prinzessin Matilda bestimmt, die den deutschen König Heinrich V. heiraten wird. An ihrer Seite überquert er die Alpen, gelangt bis nach Rom, wird in den Streit zwischen Kaiser und Kurie verwickelt und muss in einem jahrzehntelangen Bürgerkrieg kämpfen.

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 that preserves some flavor of the ballads, and adapts it for children.

London, 1938. With a world war on the horizon, a shocking crime begins to unfold – and one reporter knows too much to be allowed to survive. An absorbing and gripping mystery from the critically acclaimed author of SNOW HILL. November, 1938. Europe is teetering on the edge of...

Der vierte Band der beliebten Robin-Hood-Serie vom erfolgreichsten Experten für historische Abenteuer: Dem ehemaligen König der Diebe ist auch im Jahre 1218 kein beschauliches Leben vergönnt: Kaum aus England zurückgekehrt auf sein Landgut in der Gascogne, wird Robin Hood Zeuge, wie die Schergen Simon de Montforts ein Dorf niederbrennen. Im Auftrag des Papstes befehligt de Montfort den Kreuzzug gegen die Katharer, der mit äußerster Brutalität geführt wird - und mehr als ein politisches Ziel verfolgt.

"Das Herz des Löwen" - ein spannender historischer Roman, die dramatische Fortsetzung von "Die Pranken des Löwen" von Mac P. Lorne und der 2. Teil der Serie über den legendären Robin Hood. England 1189 - Im Sherwood Forest begegnen sich zwei Männer, deren Schicksal auf viele Jahre eng miteinander verbunden sein wird: Robert von Loxley, genannt Robin Hood, und Richard I., der zukünftige König von England. Um Begnadigung zu erlangen, begleiten die Geächteten den König auf seinen Kreuzzug ins Heilige Land.

Will Cannon hears about a gang of outlaws operating out of the small village of Pecos, New Mexico. Moses, the leader of the outlaw gang, claims he is the "Robin Hood of New Mexico". The outlaw boss says he will take all of the land given to the Mexican people in land grants by the King of Spain. Other outlaws have made such a claim in the past and all of those outlaws failed to claim one acre of land but the outlaws did find some people willing to join their cause.

Tundra, now the Queen of the Kingdom of Bargains, while visiting her parents the monarchs of Parking-Lot, received word that her husband King Fantastic was ill and was not expected to survive. She would have to return ready to ascend to the throne if he should succumb.