Other editions of book The Adventures of Robin Hood. Collected and retold by R. L. Green. Illustrated by Arthur Hall

The classic story of social justice and outrageous cunning. Robin Hood, champion of the poor and oppressed, stands against the cruel power of Prince John and the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham. Taking refuge in the vast Sherwood Forest with his band of men, he remains determined to outwit his enemies.Brilliantly introduced by bestselling author John Boyne.

The story of the English folk hero and medieval outlaw Robin Hood who as legend would have it lived in the days of Richard the Lionheart and Prince John and, with his band of merry men, fought injustice and tyranny. This retelling of the stories, first published in 1956, has become an acknowledged classic: a literary mosaic in which Roger Lancelyn Green has brought together material from the old ballads, romances and plays, as well as retellings of Noyes, Tennyson, Peacock and Scott. “For Robin Hood’s is a story that can never die,” he wrote, “nor cease to fire the imagination. Like the old fairy tales it must be told and told again — for like them it is touched with enchantment...”

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 1st Edition thus, 2001, printed from the Penguin 1st of 1956. Thick Royal 4to. 222pp. Lovely coloured frontispiece and 10 further coloured plates by the wonderful John Holder. Book excellent as new, clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind. Stunningly bound in bright gilt lettered and embossed pictorial cloth featuring elaborate scrolled gilt-framed vignette illustrations of Robin with bow drawn and target, repeated to spine, top edge green. Housed and protected in excellent like green slipcase. Lancelyn Green is as ever a delight for reader and collector alike. Heavy volume incurs additional postage charge overseas.

This is the classic story of social justice and outrageous cunning. Robin Hood is champion of the poor and oppressed by twelfth-century England against the cruel power of Prince John and the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham. He takes refuge with his Merrie Men in the vast Sherwood Forest, emerging time and again to outwit his enemies with daring and panache.

The story of Robin Hood, said Roger Lancelyn Green can never die, nor cease to fire the imagination. Like the old fairy tales it must be told and told again, for it is touched with enchantment. Placing his hero's legendary history in the reign of Richard I of England. Roger Lancelyn Green has used as his sources the ballads, romances and plays, as well as the literary retellings of Noyes, Tennyson, Peacock and Scott. In this literary mosiac he has brought to life a character who is the archetypal outlaw and popular champion of the poor. Walter Crane, one of the masters of children's book illustration, created the drawing for a retelling of the Robin Hood story by Henry Gilbert. published in 1912.