The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson

Half of Stevenson's original manuscripts are lost, including those of Treasure Island, The Black Arrow, and The Master of Ballantrae. Trained in law at Edinburgh University, Stevenson was under pressure to conform to the Edinburgh bourgeois society in which his family had made its name as lighthouse engineers he preferred a more bohemian existence as a writer. There is a part that lags, and that would be the ship sequence.Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Scotland and died in Samoa at the end of a life of travels, during which he produced novels, short stories, literary essays, poetry, drama, and travel writing. If you can suspend yourself and get enthralled by a simple tale, then by all means read. Although, as I recall it had narrow escapes, battles, and milliary scenes. So I guess if you think it isn't modern enough or not enough action then it would not be for you. The Black Arrow, who wields it and is killing the young man's friends? A young man taking a journey into manhood and his discovery of truth. It is a familar story, a maiden hidden and prized. There is a snippet of history in the tale, which may lead the reader to inquire about the war of the roses, and the Crook Back.

I enjoyed this story and would read it again. They style gets bogged down somewhat in old English wording. If you are looking for easy reading it is not the book for you. The story is for children (to be read to or those with exceptional reading skills) and I enjoyed it a great deal, when a child. It is a piece of literature that is defined by older prose. Now may God rest his spirit! Near eighty year he was afoot and about, and ever getting but now he's on the br He had a strong hand to get, and a hard hand to keep withal, had Appleyard the archer. I would go a mighty wager there is a bushel of gold therein. I would I could light upon't! When ye lose an old friend, Master Richard, the best consolation is to heir him. 'He may have had three score pounds put by. There was a bed, with a blue cover, a cupboard, a great chest, a pair of joint-stools, a hinged table in the chimney corner, and hung upon the wall the old soldier's armoury of bows and defensive armour. And there they laid him on the floor, out of regard for the mattress, and sought, as best they might, to straighten and compose his limbs.Īppleyard's house was clean and bare.

They took up the old archer, and carried him between them into his house, where he had dwelt alone.

The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson