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The Black Arrow-A Tale Of The Two Roses

The Black Arrow-A Tale Of The Two Roses

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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ISBN10: 1519791283
ISBN13: 9781519791283
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Dec 10 2015
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
by Robert Louis Stevenson Buy now for $ 1.09, or download a preview This is the extended annotated edition including a detailed biographical primer on the life and works of the author. The publishers of ' Young Folks ' having asked for a successor to Treasure Island, Stevenson turned to the period of the Wars of the Roses as a setting for a tale of adventure frankly written for youthful readers. The only preparation a boy needs for enjoying The Black Arrow is some slight acquaintance with Shakespeare or Walter Scott; nay, if he have but skimmed the briefest history of the brave old medieval times, and knows what a part in them the long-bow and the cross-bow played, and what a salet is, and what a lance, he will need no further introduction to this tale of the early days of Richard Crookback-a tale retold (like that of the search for buried treasure) exactly in the ancient way. Or if the telling differ from that to which he is accustomed, it will be because Mr. Stevenson writes with a pen so much more graphic, poetic, and incisive than the ancient chroniclers. Not content with weaving a plot that shall hold the reader spell-bound, he perfects his style with such care that not a superfluous or an ill-fitting w

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