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Howard Pyle

Born

in Wilmington, Delaware, The United States

March 05, 1853

Died

November 09, 1911

Genre

Children's, Fantasy, Historical Fiction

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Howard Pyle was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people.

During 1894 he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry (now Drexel University), and after 1900 he founded his own school of art and illustration named the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art. The term Brandywine School was later applied to the illustration artists and Wyeth family artists of the Brandywine region by Pitz. Some of his more famous students were N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Elenore Abbott, Ethel Franklin Betts, Anna Whelan Betts, Harvey Dunn, Clyde O. DeLand, Philip R. Goodwin, Violet Oakley, Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle, Olive Rush, Allen Tupper True, and Jessie Willcox Smith.

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Average rating: 4.04 · 91,903 ratings · 3,591 reviews · 752 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood 4.07 avg rating — 66,824 ratings — published 1883 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle, John F. Plummer (Afterword) 3.96 avg rating — 10,121 ratings — published 1903 — 470 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Men of Iron 3.99 avg rating — 3,065 ratings — published 1891 — 817 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Otto of the Silver Hand 3.82 avg rating — 3,127 ratings — published 1888 — 502 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Pirates 3.55 avg rating — 564 ratings — published 1908 — 402 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wonder Clock; or, Four and Twenty Marvelous Tales, Being One for Each Hour of the Day by Howard Pyle, Katherine Pyle 4.14 avg rating — 364 ratings — published 1887 — 118 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of the Champions of the Round Table 4.02 avg rating — 365 ratings — published 1905 — 176 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions 3.93 avg rating — 365 ratings — published 1907 — 157 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	King Stork by Howard Pyle, Peter Glassman (Afterword), Trina Schart Hyman (Illustrator) 3.74 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 1973 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 1910 — 114 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Pyle's King Arthur (4 books)
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Quotes by Howard Pyle (?)

“Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand.”
― Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

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“He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.”
― Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

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“So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.”
― Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

tags: hood, robin

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February 2018 Old School Poll

Macbeth by William Shakespeare 1606, 249 pages

68 votes, 19.6%

Silas Marner by George Eliot 1861, 262 pages

47 votes, 13.5%

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle 1883, 400 pages

36 votes, 10.4%

Shirley by Charlotte Brontë 1849, 624 pages

35 votes, 10.1%

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 1861, 176 pages

25 votes, 7.2%

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 1886, 445 pages

24 votes, 6.9%

Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain 1893, 160 pages

22 votes, 6.3%

Evelina by Fanny Burney 1778, 455 pages

20 votes, 5.8%

The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson 1888, 242 pages

19 votes, 5.5%

Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert 1869, 460 pages

15 votes, 4.3%

The Masterpiece by Émile Zola 1886, 464 pages

12 votes, 3.5%

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy 1899, 562 pages

11 votes, 3.2%

Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell 1863, 484 pages

8 votes, 2.3%

The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard 1862, 304 pages

5 votes, 1.4%

347 total votes

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