The Black Arrow – Robert Louis Stevenson – The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses is a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894).First published in 1888, it is both an historical adventure novel and a romance. It tells the story of Richard Shelton during the Wars of the Roses (14551487): how he becomes a knight, rescues his lady Joanna Sedley, and obtains justice for the murder of his father, Sir Harry Shelton.The ebook contains the beautiful illustrations of a 1916 edition.It also has a biographical profile of Stevenson written by English poet and critic Edmund Gosse (18491928) in 1911.
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Robert Louis Stevenson. The Black Arrow
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Prologue
At the Sign of the Sun in Kettley
In the Fen
The Fen Ferry
A Greenwood Company
“Bloody As the Hunter”
To the Day’s End
The Hooded Face
Dick Asks Questions
The Two Oaths
The Room over the Chapel
The Passage
How Dick Changed Sides
The House by the Shore
A Skirmish in the Dark
St. Bride’s Cross
The Good Hope
The Good Hope (continued)
The Good Hope (concluded)
The Den
“In Mine Enemies’ House”
The Dead Spy
In the Abbey Church
Earl Risingham
Arblaster Again
The Shrill Trumpet
The Battle of Shoreby
The Battle of Shoreby (concluded)
The Sack of Shoreby
Night in the Woods: Alicia Risingham
Night in the Woods (concluded): Dick and Joan
Dick’s Revenge
Conclusion
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Robert Louis Stevenson
The Black Arrow
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“Nay, the saints know,” said Hatch. “Here are a good two score Christian souls that we have hunted out of house and holding, he and I. He has paid his shot, poor shrew, nor will it be long, mayhap, ere I pay mine. Sir Daniel driveth over-hard.”
“This is a strange shaft,” said the lad, looking at the arrow in his hand.
