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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 · 91,751 ratings · 3,563 reviews · 729 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood 4.07 avg rating — 66,748 ratings — published 1883 — 2455 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 — 10,088 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 — 3,055 ratings — published 1891 — 822 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 — 3,117 ratings — published 1888 — 352 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 — 404 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 — 362 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 — 8 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 — 364 ratings — published 1907 — 156 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 — 112 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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September 2017 Old School Classic Poll

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome 1889, 184 pages

48 votes, 15.3%

Hamlet by William Shakespeare 1600, 289 pages

43 votes, 13.7%

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling 1894, 277 pages

33 votes, 10.5%

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

26 votes, 8.3%

Utopia by Thomas More 1516, 135 pages

25 votes, 8.0%

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 1839, 817 pages

19 votes, 6.1%

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche 1883, 327 pages

19 votes, 6.1%

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1774, 176 pages

18 votes, 5.7%

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 1895, 310 pages

17 votes, 5.4%

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 1790, 269 pages

16 votes, 5.1%

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 1883, 262 pages

15 votes, 4.8%

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

13 votes, 4.1%

Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant 1885, 416 pages

10 votes, 3.2%

The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox 1752, 464 pages

9 votes, 2.9%

East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood 1861, 694 pages

3 votes, 1.0%

314 total votes

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