Robin Hood

This retrospective review is a real blast from my past, since I read this novel as a seven-year-old kid (I turned seven in 1959). Along with Stevenson's Treasure Island (which I read around the same time), it formed my lifelong liking for historical fiction, as well as a lifelong comfort with older,......more

Despite this being not a long book it's taken me a while to read it. I've been dipping in and out of it rather than reading it through. I found it very slow to begin with but once it got going I enjoyed it very much. Each chapter is a different story. Maid Marian was hardly in it at all which I was......more

'Once upon a time the great mass of English people were unfree,' begins the preface to the edition of this book that I read and reread as a girl, going on to speak of the appeal of figures such as Robin Hood to people toiling under oppressive feudal regimes. It is a testament to how deeply I loved i......more

This was pretty bad. Very frustrating read, because there were passages and bits of chapters that were really fun, and you can tell that the author tried to tie in many aspects of the Robin Hood legend into this, but because of that, there are many repetitive plots, endless identical side characters......more

Long live England and may good triumph over evil always......more