''Black Arrow'' by Robert Louis Stevenson HELP!!!!!?

Question

hey. ok so school starts in 8 days and I'm kinda dead because I haven't read this book. (The Black Arrow) so I was wondering if they're are any sites with help or you guys can help. Thumbs down if you tell me any c**p about cheating. I know ok? But I'm seriously desperate! Help?!?

Answer 1

Bookrags has chapter summaries, but you have to pay to get the information. In case you are interested, here is the site: http://www.bookrags.com/The_Black_Arrow

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_A... has some information you may want to read.

A place called Answers http://www.answers.com/topic/the-black-a... has this information.

You can download the book at Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/848 and at least skim through it to get acquainted with the story.

The Literature Network http://www.online-literature.com/stevens... has the book and you can read it online. You can also search for words and phrases in the story there, they have a 20-question quiz and some people's posts about the book.

Sometimes it is helpful to read through the reviews at Amazon. Check http://www.amazon.com/Black-Arrow-Robert...

If you have a membership to the Encyclopedia Britannica online, you can get some information there http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topi... - I believe you can activate a trial membership, too.

Another option you may want to consider is to contact your public library to see if they have an audio edition of the book available to borrow. If you don't want to read the book, listening to it may be your best option.

There is a 1948 movie, but it changed the story quite a bit.

I hope that helps.

Answer 2

Sir Daniel Brachley, of Tunstall Moat House, was the wickedest, most faithless man in England. By his evil practises in the lawless days when the country was distracted by the strife between the houses of Lancaster and York, he was able to add land to land by judicious changes of allegiance, and even by betrayal of the party with which he appeared to be connected. It was a favorite device with him to secure the guardianship of a minor heir, boy or girl, and, after enjoying the usufruct of the estate during the heir's minority, sell the marriage to whoever would pay the guardian most for the privilege. It was whispered that he had even created such an heirship by procuring the murder of the owner of the very estate on which he lived. This was Sir Harry Shelton, and it was Sir Harry's son Richard that Sir Daniel had taken into his house and reared as if he were his own son, with the expectation of marrying him to an orphaned heiress whose condition was similar to his own. Such a woman he had found at Kettley in the person of Joanna Sedley, and, at the opening of the story, was preparing to bring her to Moat House, a project which she was vainly resisting with tears and even feminine defiance.

(There is more to this article in the following database.  Check your local library Web site for access)

Source:  Robert Lovis Stevenson: The Black Arrow, in Authors Digest, Volume XVI, Authors Press, 1908.

Source Database:  Literature Resource Center

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