The delights of Dumas’ novels are well known but less known today are his tales of Robin Hood. Basing his work on an English serial-turned-novel called Robin Hood and Little John by the younger Pierce Egan, Dumas adapted the volume and it was published after his death in 1870 in two volumes titled Le Prince des voleurs (1872) and Robin Hood le proscrit (1873). These were translated back into English by A.R. Allinson and published as A Prince of Thieves and Robin Hood: The Outlaw by Methuen in 1904-5. They have since virtually disappeared from bookshelves and are even hard to find online; here, they are now edited, corrected, and made accessible to the world in print and e-formats, by the Reginetta Press.
This volume continues the story begun in The Prince of Thieves. Read more of Robin and Marian's romance, and learn of Robin's unlucky betrayal by a woman; of Robin's valiant leadership of the Merrie Men including Little John, Will Scarlett, and Friar Tuck; their battles against the Sheriff of Nottingham - and the craven Prince John. Outwitting crafty ecclesiastics along the way, Robin at last bows to King Richard Coeur-de-Lion.
Retold in Alfred Allinson's lush translation from the original French, the hero's adventure winds to a stirring conclusion.
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