title: The Black Arrow
author:  Robert Louis Stevenson 
description: This is Robert Louis Stevenson's historical romance set during the War of the Roses.
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  # The Black Arrow
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Robert Louis Stevenson
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Critic on the Hearth:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  No one but myself knows what I have suffered, nor what my books
  
  
  have gained, by your unsleeping watchfulness and admirable
  
  
  pertinacity. And now here is a volume that goes into the world and
  
  
  lacks your IMPRIMATUR: a strange thing in our joint lives; and the
  
  
  reason of it stranger still! I have watched with interest, with
  
  
  pain, and at length with amusement, your unavailing attempts to
  
  
  peruse THE BLACK ARROW; and I think I should lack humour indeed, if
  
  
  I let the occasion slip and did not place your name in the fly-leaf
  
  
  of the only book of mine that you have never read - and never will
  
  
  read.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  That others may display more constancy is still my hope. The tale
  
  
  was written years ago for a particular audience and (I may say) in
  
  
  rivalry with a particular author; I think I should do well to name
  
  
  him, Mr. A