Dick Shelton, ward of the scheming Sir Daniel Brackley, comes of age amid the Wars of the Roses and begins to suspect his guardian of murdering his father. Fleeing into the forest, he falls in with the outlaw fellowship of the Black Arrow, and with Joanna Sedley, a girl in disguise whose fate is bound up with his own.
First serialised in 1883 for a boys’ paper, Stevenson’s medieval adventure moves with all the pace of Treasure Island. Download the free EPUB.