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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 · 94,080 ratings · 3,861 reviews · 798 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood 4.07 avg rating — 67,988 ratings — published 1883	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 — 8,446 ratings — published 1903 — 369 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 — 3,211 ratings — published 1891 — 1017 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 3.83 avg rating — 3,227 ratings — published 1888 — 50 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 — 577 ratings — published 1908 — 376 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 4.13 avg rating — 379 ratings — published 1887 — 109 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 — 376 ratings — published 1905 — 168 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 3.95 avg rating — 376 ratings — published 1907 — 34 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) 3.76 avg rating — 219 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 4.01 avg rating — 200 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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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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April 2017 Old School Classic Poll

Villette by Charlotte Brontë 1853, 573 pages

60 votes, 20.5%

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

42 votes, 14.3%

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 1862, 244 pages

37 votes, 12.6%

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 1842, 512 pages

31 votes, 10.6%

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

28 votes, 9.6%

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

26 votes, 8.9%

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1774, 149 pages

25 votes, 8.5%

Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell 1853, 432 pages

19 votes, 6.5%

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 1767, 784 pages

10 votes, 3.4%

Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf 1891, 368 pages

9 votes, 3.1%

The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox 1752, 464 pages

6 votes, 2.0%

293 total votes

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