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The Black Arrow

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First published: 1889
Pages: 234

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Robert Louis Stevenson set this brisk tale of revenge and rebellion during England's Wars of the Roses, when rival factions turned the countryside into a patchwork of ambushes and shifting loyalties. Young Richard Shelton begins to suspect that his guardian, Sir Daniel Brackley, had a hand in his father's death, and a band of outlaws who fire black-feathered arrows seem to know the truth. Caught between warring lords, Dick takes to the forest, falls in with the fellowship of the Black Arrow, and rescues a young woman traveling in disguise. Stevenson wrote it for a boys' magazine, and it moves at a gallop, full of forest skirmishes, sea chases, and coded warnings. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available to download.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1886) and for the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885).