The Black Arrow: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Black Arrow, credited to Robert Louis Stevenson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson. Read in English by Mark F. Smith In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. Dick Shelton, a nobly-born lad, is on the cusp of manhood, and he is thrust bodily into this stew where allegiances shift under one's feet. Circumstances cause him to fall in with a gentlemaiden in boy's disguise. Until he learns of the deception, Dick is unaware that the young lady is an heiress whom his guardian Sir Daniel had kidnapped. And the introduction of an outlaw with a penchant for putting black arrows into the bodies of the men who had wronged him affords Dick a worrying hint - that Sir Daniel might have been the man that had murdered Dick's father! - Summary by Mark F. Smith

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Black Arrow
• Author credits: Robert Louis Stevenson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 33
• Listed recording duration: 8:54:36

Opening tracks: first 24 of 33

1. 00 - Foreword & Prologue — 37:03
2. 01 - 1-1 At the Sign of the Sun in Kettley — 19:38
3. 02 - 1-2 In the Fen — 13:17
4. 03 - 1-3 The Fen Ferry — 16:30
5. 04 - 1-4 A Greenwood Company — 17:21
6. 05 - 1-5 ''Bloody as the Hunter'' — 18:23
7. 06 - 1-6 To the Day's End — 15:23
8. 07 - 1-7 The Hooded Face — 19:20
9. 08 - 2-1 Dick Asks Questions — 18:55
10. 09 - 2-2 The Two Oaths — 17:06
11. 10 - 2-3 The Room Over the Chapel — 14:42
12. 11 - 2-4 The Passage — 10:44
13. 12 - 2-5 How Dick Changed Sides — 18:04
14. 13 - 3-1 The House by the Shore — 15:15
15. 14 - 3-2 A Skirmish in the Dark — 13:36
16. 15 - 3-3 St. Bride's Cross — 7:12
17. 16 - 3-4 The Good Hope — 18:27
18. 17 - 3-5 The Good Hope, continued — 13:23
19. 18 - 3-6 The Good Hope, concluded — 12:13
20. 19 - 4-1 The Den — 16:40
21. 20 - 4-2 ''In Mine Enemies' House'' — 20:31
22. 21 - 4-3 The Dead Spy — 16:23
23. 22 - 4-4 In the Abbey Church — 20:37
24. 23 - 4-5 Earl Risingham — 8:10

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