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Overview
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses is an 1888 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is both an historical adventure novel and a romance novel. It first appeared as a serial in 1883 with the subtitle "A Tale of Tunstall Forest" beginning in Young Folks; A Boys' and Girls' Paper of Instructive and Entertaining Literature, vol. XXII, no. 656 (Saturday, June 30, 1883) and ending in the issue for Saturday, October 20, 1883-Stevenson had finished writing it by the end of summer. It was printed under the pseudonym Captain George North. He alludes to the time gap between the serialization and the publication as one volume in 1888 in his preface "Critic [parodying Dickens's 'Cricket'] on the Hearth": "The tale was written years ago for a particular audience..." The Paston Letters were Stevenson's main literary source for The Black Arrow.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781536853988 |
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Publisher: | CreateSpace Publishing |
Publication date: | 08/01/2016 |
Pages: | 114 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.27(d) |
About the Author
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish poet, novelist, and travel writer. Born the son of a lighthouse engineer, Stevenson suffered from a lifelong lung ailment that forced him to travel constantly in search of warmer climates. Rather than follow his father’s footsteps, Stevenson pursued a love of literature and adventure that would inspire such works as Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped (1886), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879).
Date of Birth:
November 13, 1850Date of Death:
December 3, 1894Place of Birth:
Edinburgh, ScotlandPlace of Death:
Vailima, SamoaEducation:
Edinburgh University, 1875Table of Contents
Prologue | 3 | |
Book I | The Two Lads | |
At the Sign of the Sun in Kettley | 19 | |
In the Fen | 27 | |
The Fen Ferry | 33 | |
A Greenwood Company | 40 | |
"Bloody as the Hunter" | 47 | |
To the Day's End | 55 | |
The Hooded Face | 61 | |
Book II | The Moat House | |
Dick Asks Questions | 70 | |
The Two Oaths | 78 | |
The Room over the Chapel | 85 | |
The Passage | 91 | |
How Dick Changed Sides | 96 | |
Book III | My Lord Foxham | |
The House by the Shore | 105 | |
A Skirmish in the Dark | 112 | |
Saint Bride's Cross | 118 | |
The Good Hope | 121 | |
The Good Hope (continued) | 129 | |
The Good Hope (concluded) | 135 | |
Book IV | The Disguise | |
The Den | 141 | |
"In Mine Enemies' House" | 148 | |
The Dead Spy | 156 | |
In the Abbey Church | 163 | |
Earl Risingham | 172 | |
Arblaster Again | 176 | |
Book V | Crookback | |
The Shrill Trumpet | 186 | |
The Battle of Shoreby | 193 | |
The Battle of Shoreby (concluded) | 199 | |
The Sack of Shoreby | 203 | |
Night in the Woods--Alicia Risingham | 212 | |
Night in the Woods (concluded)--Dick and Joan | 219 | |
Dick's Revenge | 228 | |
Conclusion | 232 |
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