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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...

'I charge you, Sir Alan Dale, with administering my death. At the end of the game, I would rather die by your hand than any other.' England rebels. War rages across the land. In the wake of Magna Carta, King John's treachery is revealed, and the barons rise against him once more. Fighting with them is the Earl of Locksley - the former outlaw Robin Hood - and his right-hand man, Sir Alan Dale.

Step into the leafy world of Sherwood Forest in this joyful, timeless retelling of one of literature’s greatest legends. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle brings to life the daring outlaw Robin Hood and his band of merry men as they outwit the corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham, defend the weak, and turn every encounter into a lively adventure.

Spring, 1192. Robin Hood and his band of men, travelling home from the Third Crusade, find themselves in the lush, wine-rich Duchy of Burgundy. When they are captured by a renegade knight and taken across the River Saone to the rival County of Burgundy, they are plunged into a nightmarish world of treachery, deceit and cold-blooded murder.

As the gates of Ravenskeep swing open and a young woman flees into the primeval depths of Sherwood Forest and into the arms of the man she loves, a saga of exceptional power and remarkable passion begins... He is Sir Robery Locksley - the heroic nobleman who has turned his back on all he knows to embark on a dangerous quest for justice in an England torn apart by treachery, betrayal, and war.

Many centuries ago, before Robin, before King Richard and Prince John, before even Herne the Hunter, there was Sherwood Forest. And at the heart of it, mystical paths were drawn together to protect the future. But something or someone in Robin’s time has chosen now to make a stand and destroy the past, the present and the future, with the help of the dragons, the ancient beasts of legend. And it will take a true hero to stop them.

It is the event of the century–to be more specific, the 12th century. A no-holds-barred, yet surprisingly civilized political debate for the benefit of the citizens of Sherwood Forest between the Robin Hood of legend and his nemesis, that exemplar of villainy, Prince John. Each candidate will haveth three minutes. You’ll be placing a smart wager if you think the Sheriff of Nottingham just might try to tip the scales in his position as moderator. Let us return to England, birthplace of the system of government we enjoy today, to listen to some very opposing views.

Inglaterra, 1193. Mientras el rey Ricardo Corazón de León combate en Tierra Santa por recuperar Jerusalén, su general más leal, Robin de Locksley, es capturado junto a su guardia personal. En los desiertos de la guerra, el hambre, la desesperación y la muerte acechan a los soldados ingleses, devorados por una cruzada que se ha convertido en condena. Lejos del campo de batalla, Inglaterra se desangra. El príncipe Juan, aprovechando la ausencia del rey, impone un régimen de corrupción, miedo y esclavitud que arrastra al reino a la ruina.

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.

Howard Pyle's heroic version of Robin Hood begins after a conflict with some foresters leads to Robin of Locksley becoming the outlaw famous for stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Each chapter tells a different tale of Robin as he recruits Merry Men, resists the authorities, and aids his fellow man. Pyle's version includes the popular stories of Little John and Robin's staff fight, Friar Tuck's besting of Robin, Robin's collusion with Allan-a-Dale, and several of his conflicts with the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Robert of Locksley, the handsome son of a respected earl, has long battled the tyranny of Prince John - a man as weak as he is cruel. Now that power has shifted even more firmly into John's hands, and Robert has no choice but to fight as an outlaw - as Robin Hood. Lady Marian of Ravenskeep has fled into the depths of Sherwood Forest. There, amid wild woods, she will be transformed from lady to warrior - as Robin Hood's partner in stealing John's gold.

When Robin takes a shortcut through Sherwood Forest, the path he chooses leads not to Nottingham’s archery contest, but to a life on the run from the law. Unable now to become a knight and joined by his childhood friends, Robin Hood leads the most infamous outlaw band ever to evade the king and his sheriff.

A kingdom burdened by war, taxes, and a tyrannical monarch... As England struggles to carry on in the absence of the good King Richard, other forces begin gathering to grab power. Meanwhile, those who suffer most are the common folk, crushed under the weight of excessive taxation and lawlessness.

The legend of Robin Hood was based on the career of a real outlaw who lived in the forests near Nottingham, England, in the last half of the 12th century. His character has become world famous and is the subject of hundreds of plays, novels, stories, and films. As a man of the people who was a partisan for the lower classes, he also became strongly associated with an anticlerical yet pious Christian attitude, an animosity toward the sheriff of Nottingham, and a special regard toward women, children, and the infirm.

Robin Hood is one of the most well-known stories about a well-meaning outlaw. Robin Hood is an outlaw who robs from the rich to feed the poor. He sets about on adventures through the country to recruit people to assist in his robberies, to cause mischief to the royalty seeking to have him captured, and to give money and resources to the poor and needy in society.

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.

"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.

Seit der geliebte König Richard Löwenherz ins Heilige Land gezogen ist, stöhnt England unter der ungerechten Herrschaft seines Bruders Johann. Doch in den tiefen Wäldern von Sherwood sammelt der junge Robin von Locksley eine Schar Gesetzloser um sich, mit denen er dem einfachen Volk hilft, wo er kann. Sein Gerechtigkeitssinn wird nur von seinen Fähigkeiten mit Pfeil und Bogen übertroffen. Er stiehlt von den Reichen, gibt es den Armen und spielt dem boshaften Sheriff von Nottingham und dessen Schergen so manchen Streich.

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.

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...