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The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses is an 1888 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.It is both a 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, 30 June 1883) and ending in vol. XXIII, no ...
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The Black Arrow: A Tale of Two Roses is the 1888 historical adventure and romance novel written by Scottish novelist and travel writer Robert Louis Stevenson. Set in fifteenth century England during the Wars of the Roses, the story revolves around Richard (Dick) Shelton as he becomes knighted, rescues his beloved Joanna Sedley, and finds justice for the slaughter of his father, Harry Shelton.
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The Black Arrow by Robert Louise Stevenson is a historical fiction set in the time of War of the Roses. The book tells the story of a young man named Richard Shelton, who in the quest of obtaining justice for his father's murder and rescuing his love from the grip of a villainous warden, displays loyalty and courage, and becomes an important warrior for the Yorks.
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The Black Arrow, 1888. Read the Virtual Book. Summary. The Black Arrow: A Tale of Two Roses is set during the Wars of the Roses (1453-1487). These were a series of civil wars between the houses of Lancaster and York who were fighting for the English throne. In the novel, Richard Shelton (Dick) lives as Sir Daniel Brackley’s ward at Tunstall ...
Mar 9, 2010 · The Black Arrow was a book I re-read many times after I first read as a teenager, and I recently re-read the first few chapters again online at Google Books. The action and adventure I remembered quite well, but I'd forgotten what a wonderful job Stevenson had done of including so much historical detail, and of giving complex personalities to ...
The Black Arrow is not a major novel, nor did its author consider it so. Primarily of entertainment value, the book rises above its genre through the author's vivid realism, sense of moral ...
