The Black Arrow: A Tale of Two Roses

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Overview

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789353295721
Publisher:	Alpha Editions
Publication date:	01/16/2019
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894), Scottish writer and poet, was born in Edinburgh to a prosperous family of engineers, but gave up the family profession first for law and then for literature. Among his prodigious output as a writer are: Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879), Treasure Island (1883), The Black Arrow (1884), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), and Kidnapped (1886).

Date of Birth:

November 13, 1850

Date of Death:

December 3, 1894

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Vailima, Samoa

Education:

Edinburgh University, 1875

Table 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