Otto of the Silver HandAuthor :
Paperback
Published : Thursday 31 December 2020
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â?oA personification of divine forgiveness.â??-Jill P. Mayâ?oFrom American history books to Pirates of the Caribbean, the work of Howard Pyle continues to captivate us...â??-Big Thinkâ?o...it has a significant, universal theme, and it presents the details of daily life in Germany of the thirteenth century accurately and unobtrusively, making the period real and alive.â??-Malcolm Usreyâ?oHe is as careful and painstaking and artistic with his childrenâ?Ts books as the very best novelist are with their novels...But best of them all is Pyleâ?Ts Otto of the Silver Hand. It is a story of German chivalry in the days of the robber barons.â??-Willa CatherOtto of the Silver Hand (1888), Howard Pyleâ?Ts first novel for children, is a grim yet empowering narrative of medieval Germany, following the adventures of a young hero caught between the power struggles of two families. With its gripping battle scenes, romance, and villainous warlords, this is a reading experience that continues to thrill over one hundred years after its initial publication. Otto, a gentle boy born to a noble germanic family in the middle ages, has been raised in the compassionate seclusion of a monastery to protect him from the violent rivalries of his family. When the boy turns twelve years old he is retrieved back to Drachenhausen, his ancestral castle to begin his training in knighthood. Soon Otto discovers that his father, the Baron Conrad, a brutal robber baron, is in the midst of a savage vendetta with his the family of his slain foe, the Baron Fredrick. When Ottoâ?Ts father and his knights are summoned to the Imperial Court the Fredrick clan attacks Castle Drachenhausen, burns it to the ground, and kidnaps the boy. Baron Henry, the heir of Fredrickâ?Ts clan, keeps Otto in the dungeon of his own fortress. Until his father arrives to rescue him, Otto experiences both terrible brutality and the gentle affections of Henryâ?Ts beautiful daughter. Through Ottoâ?Ts ordeals and suffering he recognized the deficiencies of the human character, yet he rose above the wickedness with his gentleness and love. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Otto of the Silver Hand is both modern and readable.
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