Otto of the Silver Hand : (Large Print Edition)

Pyle, Howard

ISBN 10: 0531003175 / ISBN 13: 9780531003176

Published by Keith Jennison / Franklin Watts, NY, 2000

About this Item

Large Print Edition in Picture Cloth Binding, complete and unabridged. Hard cover. Published NY: Keith Jennison / Franklin Watts, no date. 4to., 8 3/4" x 11 1/2", 173pp., 25 illustrations by Howard Pyle. Brown pictorial cloth with white and black titles, black pictorials and decorations. Fine.

Seller Inventory # 008976

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Otto of the Silver Hand : (Large Print Edition)
• Publisher: Keith Jennison / Franklin Watts, NY
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0531003175
• ISBN 13: 9780531003176
• Binding: Hard
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children's

About this title

Synopsis

A rich and engrossing thread of Romance runs through this tale of the motherless son of a valiant robber baron of Medieval Germany. Young Otto, born into a warring household in an age when lawless chiefs were constantly fighting each other or despoiling the caravans of the merchant burghers, is raised in a monastery only to return to his family's domain and become painfully involved in the blood feud between his father and the rival house of Trutz-Drachen.The narrative is told with Howard Pyle's consummate skill and illustrated with some of the most enchanting sketches ever done for a book of this type. Like the same author's version of The Story of King Arthur and His Knights and his collection of original stories known as The Wonder Clock , this book has become a legend, a modern story with the feel and sound of an ancient tale. It is a reading adventure that youngsters will not soon forget.

About the Author

Howard Pyle (1853-1911), author and illustrator, was born in Wilmington, Delaware. Inspired as a child by Grimm's German Fairy Tales and The Arabian Nights, he decided as an adult to write and illustrate stories for children. After some success contributing to children's magazines, he became famous with his book The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire. He also wrote and illustrated historical romances and fairy stories.