The Black Arrow, Memories and Portraits & Records of a Family of Engineers

The Black Arrow, Memories and Portraits & Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson


ISBN
9789353855932
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
558
Dimensions
140 x 216 x 35mm

The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses is an 1888 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is both an historical adventure novel and a romance novel.

The novel is set in the reign of "old King Henry VI" (1422-1461, 1470-1471) and during the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487). The story begins with the Tunstall Moat House alarm bell, rung to summon recruits for its absent lord Sir Daniel Brackley, to join the Battle of Risingham; at which the outlaw "fellowship" known as "the Black Arrow" begins to strike with its "four black arrows" for the "four black hearts" of Brackley and three of his retainers: Nicholas Appleyard, Bennet Hatch, and Sir Oliver Oates, the parson. The rhyme posted in explanation of this attack, makes the protagonist Richard ('Dick') Shelton, ward of Sir Daniel, curious about the death of his father Sir Harry Shelton. Having been dispatched to Kettley, where Sir Daniel was quartered, and sent to Tunstall Moat House by return dispatch, he falls in with a fugitive, Joanna Sedley, disguised as a boy with the alias of John Matcham: an heiress kidnapped by Sir Daniel to obtain guardianship over her and to retain his control over Richard by marrying her to him.

As they travel through Tunstall Forest, Joanna tries to persuade Dick to turn against Sir Daniel in sympathy with the Black Arrow outlaws, whose camp they discover near the ruins of Grimstone manor. The next day they are met in the forest by Sir Daniel himself, disguised as a leper and returning to the Moat House after his side was defeated at Risingham. Dick and Joanna then follow Sir Daniel to the Moat House. Here Dick confirms that Sir Daniel is the murderer of his father, and escapes injured from the Moat House. He is rescued by the outlaws of the Black Arrow.

Memories and Portraits is a collection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1887.

Contents
I. The Foreigner at Home
II. Some College Memories
III. Old Morality
IV. A College Magazine
V. An Old Scotch Gardener
VI. Pastoral
VII. The Manse
VIII. Memories of an Islet
IX. Thomas Stevenson
X. Talk And Talkers: First Paper
XI. Talk And Talkers: Second Paper
XII. The Character of Dogs
XIII. "A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured"
XIV. A Gossip on a Novel of Dumas's
XV. A Gossip on Romance
XVI. A Humble Remonstrance
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