The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses
1888
The Wars of the Roses have torn England apart, and young Dick Shelton finds himself trapped between forces he barely understands. Warded to the treacherous Sir Daniel Brackley, Dick's world narrows to the forests of Tunstall where rival factions clash and an ominous society known as the Black Arrow leaves its mark on anyone who stands in their way. When a black-tipped arrow pins a warning to a dying man's chest, Dick is pulled into a conspiracy that will force him to choose between the man who raised him and the quest for justice for his murdered father. As he rides through a landscape thick with treachery, Dickinson must learn quickly: who deserves loyalty, and when does justice demand betrayal instead? What follows is shipwreck and ambush, forbidden love and cold-blooded murder, as England's crown hangs trembling and a boy becomes a man. Stevenson wrote this for a young audience, but what he created transcends the genre: a ripping adventure that asks what we owe to those who raise us versus what we owe to those we lost.
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“[H]e began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“I had four blak arrows under my belt,Four for the greefs that I have felt,Four for the number of ill menneThat have oppressid me now and then.One is gone; one is wele sped;Old Apulyaird is dead.One is for Maister Bennet Hatch,That burned Grimstone, walls and thatch.One for Sir Oliver Oates,That cut Sir Harry Shelton’s throat.Sir Daniel, ye shull have the fourt;We shall think it fair sport.Ye shull each have your own part,A blak arrow in each blak heart.Get ye to your knees for to pray;Ye are ded theeves, by yea and nay!JON AMEND-ALLOf the Green Wood,And his jolly fellaweship””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“I know; I don't care to die either. But when whining mendeth nothing, wherefore whine?””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“and for the first time began to understand the desperate game that we play in life; and how a thing once done is not to be changed or remedied, by any penitence. But””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“Nay,' said Dick. 'And now that I have seen you for what ye are - the fairest maid and stateliest of England - think ye I would turn? - if the deep sea were there, I would straight through it; if the way were full of lions, I would scatter them like mice.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“If the barons live at war, ploughfolk must eat roots.” “Nay,””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“He is one that goes to bed Lancaster and gets up York.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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