Black Arrow

Black Arrow

by Robert Louis Stevenson

33 chapters8h 54mEnglish1899

About this book

In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. Dick Shelton, a nobly-born lad, is on the cusp of manhood, and he is thrust bodily into this stew where allegiances shift under one's feet. Circumstances cause him to fall in with a gentlemaiden in boy's disguise. Until he learns of the deception, Dick is unaware that the young lady is an heiress whom his guardian Sir Daniel had kidnapped. And the introduction of an outlaw with a penchant for putting black arrows into the bodies of the men who had wronged him affords Dick a worrying hint - that Sir Daniel might have been the man that had murdered Dick's father! - Summary by Mark F. Smith

Chapters (32)

11-1 At the Sign of the Sun in Kettley
1178
21-2 In the Fen
797
31-3 The Fen Ferry
990
41-4 A Greenwood Company
1041
51-5 "Bloody as the Hunter"
1103
61-6 To the Day's End
923
71-7 The Hooded Face
1160
82-1 Dick Asks Questions
1135
92-2 The Two Oaths
1026
102-3 The Room Over the Chapel
882
112-4 The Passage
644
122-5 How Dick Changed Sides
1084
133-1 The House by the Shore
915
143-2 A Skirmish in the Dark
816
153-3 St. Bride's Cross
432
163-4 The Good Hope
1107
173-5 The Good Hope, continued
803
183-6 The Good Hope, concluded
733
194-1 The Den
1000
204-2 "In Mine Enemies' House"
1231
214-3 The Dead Spy
983
224-4 In the Abbey Church
1237
234-5 Earl Risingham
490
244-6 Arblaster Again
1433
255-1 The Shrill Trumpet
881
265-2 The Battle of Shoreby
859
275-3 The Battle of Shoreby, concluded
559
285-4 The Sack of Shoreby
1259
295-5 Night in the Woods: Alicia Risingham
1026
305-6 Night in the Woods (concluded: Dick and Joan
1216
315-7 Dick's Revenge
541
325-8 Conclusion
369

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