1888 Books (Book Guide) - 1888 Novels, the Man Who Would Be King, the Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, Looking Backward, Robbery Under Arms (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (books not included). Pages: 36. Chapters: 1888 novels, The Man Who Would Be King, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, Looking Backward, Robbery Under Arms, The Secret Doctrine, Robert Elsmere, A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, Partial Portraits, Under the Deodars, Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories, Two Years' Vacation, The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales, Masks or Faces, Le Reve, Otto of the Silver Hand, The Reverberator, A New Era of Thought, O Ateneu, Watches of the Night, Kidnapped, The Taking of Lungtungpen, The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales, His Chance in Life, Os Maias, Soldiers Three, 1888 in literature, Yoked with an Unbeliever, Thrown Away, Theses on Feuerbach, Cupid's Arrows, A Dream of John Ball, Fire in the Steppe, A Carne, False Dawn, Consequences, Abbe Jules, Pierre et Jean, Mark Twain's Library of Humor, Three and - an Extra, Stempenyu, The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White, Bhagyawati, Travels in Arabia Deserta, An Elementary Treatise on Electricity, The Elect Lady, Burglar Bill. Excerpt: The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses is an 1888 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is both an historical adventure novel and a romance. It first appeared as a serial in 1883 with the subtitle "A Tale of Tunstall Forest" beginning in Young Folks; A Boys' and Girls' Paper of Instructive and Entertaining Literature, vol. XXII, no. 656 (Saturday, June 30, 1883) and ending in the issue for Saturday, October 20, 1883-Stevenson had finished writing it by the end of summer. It was printed under the pseudonymn Captain George North. He alludes to the time gap between the serialization and the publication as one volume in 1888 in his preface "Critic on the Hearth" "The tale was written years ago for a particular audience ...." The Paston Letters were Stevenson's main literary sou...