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Robin Hood / Henry Gilbert. - Ware : Wordsworth Editions, 1994. - 288 stron : ilustracje ; 20 cm.

(Wordsworth Classics)

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Gilbert Henry (1868-1937). Autor.

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Dzieci Młodzież 9-13 lat 14-17 lat

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Temat

Robin Hood (postać legendarna) Teksty angielskie Anglia (Wielka Brytania)

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Robin Hood is perhaps the greatest British folk hero and is celebrated in many books, films and other forms of entertainment. References to this colourful outlaw of Sherwood Forest go back into the mists of time. There is a mention of the 'rhymes of Robin Hood' in the poem Piers Plowman, thought to have been composed in the 1370s, but the earliest surviving copies of the narrative ballads that tell the outlaw’s story date to the second half of 15th century. So, by the time the twentieth century dawned, Robin was a well-known and well-documented character, but it was Henry Gilbert’s book Robin Hood, published in 1912, which assembled all the disparate elements of the legend into an elegiac and detailed version of Robin’s life and adventures. The book re-conceives all the familiar set-pieces of the story along the lines of a sweeping narrative arc that gives to the whole the grandeur of an epic.

Robin emerges from the text as a vivid and fully rounded individual. All the familiar characters are here, too, including Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet and Maid Marian, whom we are told was Robin’s childhood sweetheart and, when they were just children, they vowed to marry each other. And of course the villainous Guy of Gisborne and the Sherriff of Nottingham play their usual dastardly roles in the drama. There is no doubt that Gilbert saw Robin Hood as a dashing romantic hero, an enemy of injustice and a friend to the downtrodden. King Richard’s judgment of the man sums up the author’s view and the tone of the book: ‘Thy justice is a wild justice, but like thy bolts, it hits the mark. I forgive thee much for that.’ [...] (David Stuart ; http://wordsworth-editions.com/blog/robin-hood).

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Complete and Unabridged.