The Black Arrow: A Tale of Two Roses

"I know; I don't care to die either. But when whining mendeth nothing, wherefore whine?"

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

The Black Arrow: A Tales of the Two Roses (1888) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a classic piece of adventure fiction, set during a civil war in England known as "The War of the Roses" (1455-1487), that tells the story of a swashbuckling, young nobleman who returns from fighting only to discover that an old family friend has murdered his father. When Richard ("Dick")...