A messenger arrived with a message from Sir Daniel Brackley for Sir Oliver Oates, his clerk. One afternoon in the late springtime, the Moat House bell begins to ring. The Black Arrow is the story of a young man’s maturation during the mid-fifteenth century when England was torn by thirty years of civil war, known as the Wars of the Roses. The late 20th century brought a re-evaluation of Stevenson as an artist of great range and insight. His heirs sold his papers during World War I, and many Stevenson documents were auctioned off in 1918. Half of Stevenson's original manuscripts are lost, including those of Treasure Island, The Black Arrow, and The Master of Ballantrae. Trained in law at Edinburgh University, Stevenson was under pressure to conform to the Edinburgh bourgeois society in which his family had made its name as lighthouse engineers he preferred a more bohemian existence as a writer. Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Scotland and died in Samoa at the end of a life of travels, during which he produced novels, short stories, literary essays, poetry, drama, and travel writing.
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