There is quite a lot of fighting and killing, as you would expect in a book which features battles and spies and a 15th century setting. I suppose that he thought it would help with the historical atmosphere, but it really doesn’t. I really disliked the style of writing that Stevenson employed in this book, a sort of archaic English which Stevenson himself called ‘tushery’. Meanwhile Dick is beginning to think that Sir Daniel and his cronies are actually responsible for his father’s death and Joanna is sure of it, she persuades Dick to team up with The Black Arrow outlaws against Sir Daniel. He has kidnapped Joanna Sedley from her legal guardian, intending to marry her off to Dick.
Sir Daniel buys up guardianships so that he can plunder their money before they reach maturity. Unfortunately Dick’s guardian is Sir Daniel, he’s a rogue although supposedly a gentleman. Sadly it didn’t come up to the standards of Treasure Island, Kidnapped or even its sequel Catriona.ĭick Shelton’s father was murdered when Dick was younger and now that he is grown up Dick wants to get justice for his father.
It’s set during the Wars of the Roses in the time of King Henry VI and as you would expect it’s a combination of adventure and romance. The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson was first published in 1888 and it’s one of the books on my Classics Club list.
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