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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 · 91,359 ratings · 3,515 reviews · 712 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood 4.07 avg rating — 66,545 ratings — published 1883 — 13 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 — 10,027 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 — 3,028 ratings — published 1891 — 830 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 — 3,101 ratings — published 1888 — 526 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 3.56 avg rating — 561 ratings — published 1908 — 4 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 4.15 avg rating — 357 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 — 363 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 — 363 ratings — published 1907 — 155 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) 3.75 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 1973 — 4 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 3.99 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 1910 — 111 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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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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June 2017 Old School Classic Poll

Othello by William Shakespeare, 1603, 314 pages

44 votes, 14.4%

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1848, 437 pages

40 votes, 13.1%

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, 1889, 416 pages

34 votes, 11.1%

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, 1593, 291 pages

31 votes, 10.1%

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, 1862, 244 pages

27 votes, 8.8%

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, 1826, 410 pages

23 votes, 7.5%

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

22 votes, 7.2%

Hunger by Knut Hamsun, 1890, 134 pages

20 votes, 6.5%

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, 1353, 909 pages

13 votes, 4.2%

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, 1764, 125 pages

13 votes, 4.2%

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard, 1885, 264 pages

13 votes, 4.2%

A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, 1840, 185 pages

12 votes, 3.9%

A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe, 1790, 256 pages

12 votes, 3.9%

Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, 1827, 399 pages

2 votes, 0.7%

306 total votes

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