The Black Arrow (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- First Published: 1888
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: Fifteenth century
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: Sir Daniel Brackley, Richard “Dick” Shelton, Joanna Sedley, Sir Oliver Oates, Ellis Duckworth, Lawless, Richard
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: History, Love or romance, Murder or homicide, Mistaken or secret identity, Betrayal, Social life, England or English people, War, Fifteenth century, Adventure, Outlaws, Battles, Wars of the Roses
- Locales: England
The Story:
One afternoon in the late springtime, the Moat House bell began to ring. A messenger had arrived with a message from Sir Daniel Brackley for Sir Oliver Oates, his clerk. When the peasants gathered at the summons of the bell, they were told that as many armed men as could be spared from the defense of Moat House were to join Sir Daniel at Kettley, where a battle was to be fought between the armies of Lancaster and York. There was some grumbling at this order, for Sir Daniel was a faithless man who fought first on one side and then on the other. He had added to his own...
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