Howard Pyle

A quest for knighthood motivates Myles Falworth through rigorous training and dangerous jousting tournaments to confront a lifelong enemy and claim his true love. Myles Falworth determines that the only way he can restore his family's honor, undo the false charge of treason placed against his blind father by the arrogant Earl of Alban, is to become a knight of noble standing and challenge the Earl to single combat. Men of Iron is a historical novel...

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table have come to represent the never-ending struggle between right and wrong. Many of us know of King Arthur, Sir Lancelot, and Queen Guinevere, but are you familiar with the other characters surrounding Camelot and the Round Table? What was the significance of the Lady of the Lake, Merlin the Magician, Sir Mordred, and Morgana Le Fay? Listen and learn about the noble deeds of the Knights of the Round table,...

Wherefore if it will please you to read that, which is hereinafter set forth, you will be told of how Sir Launcelot slew the great Worm of Corbin; of the madness that afterward fell upon him, and of how a most noble, gentle, and beautiful lady, high the Lady Elaine the Fair, lent him aid and succor at a time of utmost affliction to him, and so, brought him back to health again. And you may herein, further find it told how Sir Launcelot was, afterward...

A short verse introduces a fairy tale for each hour of the day and night. Includes such tales as: Bearskin -- The Water of Life -- How one Turned his Trouble to Some Account -- How Three Went out into the Wide World -- The Clever Student and the Master of Black Arts -- The Princess Golden Hair and the Great Black Raven -- Cousin Greylegs, the Great Red Fox, and Grandfather Mole -- One Good Turn Deserves Another -- The White Bird -- How the Good Gifts...

“Pirates, Buccaneers, Marooners, those cruel but picturesque sea wolves who once infested the Spanish Main, all live in present-day conceptions in great degree as drawn by the pen and pencil of Howard Pyle….It is improbable that anyone else will ever bring his combination of interest and talent to the depiction of these old-time Pirates, any more than there could be a second Remington to paint the now extinct Indians and gun-fighters of the Great...

IN this volume there follows the fourth and last series of those histories relating to the life and to the kingship of Arthur, King of England. In this it shall first be told how it befell with Sir Geraint; then it shall be told how the Holy Grail was achieved by Sir Galahad, the son of Sir Launcelot; and then it shall be told how King Arthur passed from this life, and how, after doing battle right royally for his crown and having overcome his enemies,...

Recounts the adventures of Robin Hood, who slew a deer on a wager, became an outlaw in Sherwood Forest, and collected around him a merry band, including Little John, Allan a Dale, Friar Tuck, and Will Stutely.

Essays inspired by the renowned nineteenth-century writer’s time at a Boston boardinghouse.
 
These philosophical essays, enlivened by a number of poems, draw upon Oliver Wendell Holmes’s time spent as a young man at the table with his fellow boarders—the professor, the divinity student, and the schoolmistress, as well as the landlady—in the thriving cultural hub of Boston. First published in the Atlantic...

Twelve selected adventures of Robin Hood and his outlaw band who stole from the rich to give to the poor.

Relates how Arthur became king, won a queen, and came to establish the Round Table.