The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, by Robert Louis Stevenson

Originally serialized in a periodical of boys' adventure fiction, The Black Arrow is a swashbuckling portrait of a young man's journey to discover the heroism within himself. Young Dick Shelton, caught in the midst of England's War of the Roses, finds his loyalties torn between the guardian who will ultimately betray him and the leader of a secret fellowship, The Black Arrow. As Shelton is drawn deeper into this conspiracy, he must distinguish friend from foe and confront war, shipwreck, revenge, murder, and forbidden love, as England's crown threatens to topple around him.

Table of Content

Dedication

Prologue — John Amend-all

Book I — The Two Lads

Chapter 1. At the Sign of the Sun in Kettley

Chapter 2. In the Fen

Chapter 3. The Fen Ferry

Chapter 4. A Greenwood Company

Chapter 5. “Bloody as the hunter“

Chapter 6. To the Day’s End

Chapter 7. The Hooded Face

The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, by Robert Louis Stevenson

Book II — The Moat House

Chapter 1. Dick Asks Questions

Chapter 2. The Two Oaths

Chapter 3. The Room Over the Chapel

Chapter 4. The Passage

Chapter 5. How Dick Changed Sides

Book III — My Lord Foxham

Chapter 1. The House by the Shore

Chapter 2. A Skirmish in the Dark

Chapter 3. St. Bride’s Cross

Chapter 4. The Good Hope

Chapter 5. The Good Hope (continued)

Chapter 6. The Good Hope (concluded)

Book IV — The Disguise

Chapter 1. The Den

Chapter 2. “In mine enemies’ house”

Chapter 3. The Dead Spy

Chapter 4. In the Abbey Church

Chapter 5. Earl Risingham

Chapter 6. Arblaster Again

The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, by Robert Louis Stevenson

Book V — Crookback

Chapter 1. The Shrill Trumpet

Chapter 2. The Battle of Shoreby

Chapter 3. The Battle of Shoreby (Concluded)

Chapter 4. The Sack of Shoreby

Chapter 5. Night in the Woods: Alicia Risingham

Chapter 6. Night in the Woods (concluded): Dick and Joan

Chapter 7. Dick’s Revenge

Chapter 8. Conclusion

Footnotes