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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Everyman
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Absence and presumption of death
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043425300
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857907073
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novels of travel, romance and adventure. The Master of Ballantrae takes a deep, disturbing turn after Kidnapped and Catriona, with its tale of rival brothers caught in a web of hatred, obsession, love and betrayal which draws them to adventures in frozen wastes of North America. Stevenson's fascination with the divided nature of the human self, so famously demonstrated in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, recurs in Weir of Hermiston with its awful father-son confrontation.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:473279344
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030000653099
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson,Claire Harman
Publisher : Everymans Library
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0460872265
Stevenson said of THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE 'the public will like it...for it is picturesque and curious and dismal' and indeed it has remained popular with generations of readers.Set in the period following the Jacobite rebellion of 1745,this is the story of two brothers locked in combat,for whom mutual destruction becomes inevitable.Family relationships also dominate WEIR OF HERMISTON,which was Stevenson's last and probably finest novel.Archie is the tyrannised son of Weir, 'the hanging judge',and his eventual estrangement from his father launches him into a world of romantic intrigue and adventure.Stevenson did not finish WEIR OF HERMISTON before his death in 1894,but a summary of his notes and conversations included in this edition points to the intended outcome of this remarkable tale.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Families
ISBN : 1853262943
Both the novels in this edition deal with division and duality. Full of romance, excitement and adventure, they present a sense of moral ambiguity coupled with a deep feeling for Scotland and its history.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015012999226
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679417446
In these two historical tales of the Scottish lowlands in the eighteenth century, Robert Louis Stevenson brought to the novel of adventure a psychological sophistication it had never before possessed - a subtlety that, far from impeding the action, everywhere intensifies its speed and credibility. A double demonstration of Stevenson's ability to satisfy the highest critical standards and at the same time remain compulsively entertaining. With an Introduction by John Sutherland (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775414209
Although considered by many to be Robert Louis Stevenson's greatest work of literature, Weir of Hermiston was left unfinished by its author's untimely death in 1894. Archie Weir is estranged from his father, a harsh criminal court judge with no time for Archie's Romantic sensibilities. Sent to live as laird of a family property in Hermiston, Archie soon falls in love with a local girl named Kirstie.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 869 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847675590
Introduced by Jenni Calder and Roderick Watson. Kidnapped – Catriona – The Master of Ballantrae – Weir of Hermiston These four great novels take us deep into Robert Louis Stevenson’s imaginative and bitter-sweet relationship with his native country. Kidnapped, and its sequel Catriona, are renowned the world over as supreme stories of adventure and romance. On another level they also explore the subtle divisions of Scottish history and character in the eighteenth century, and (some would say) the present day. The Master of Ballantrae takes a darker and more disturbing turn, with its tale of rival brothers caught in a web of hatred, obsession, love and betrayal which draws them to their end in the frozen wastes of North America. Stevenson’s fascination with the divided nature of the human self (most obviously demonstrated in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) appears again in the Weir of Hermiston with its terrible confrontation between a father and his son. With an unsurpassed combination of physical adventure and psychological insight, The Scottish Novels have moved and thrilled readers and writers from Stevenson’s contemporaries to the present day.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781425047931
The book narrates the story of two brothers, James Durie and Henry Durie. The former is an immoral person who teases and irritates his brother. It's an adventurous story full of sorrow, romance and revenge. This book of Stevenson is set in a variety of locations and keeps the readers in suspense about the next events.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1076657439
Author : Martha Heineman Pieper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:774126274
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : YouHui Culture Publishing Company
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson TO MY WIFE I saw rain falling and the rainbow drawn On Lammermuir. Hearkening I heard again In my precipitous city beaten bells Winnow the keen sea wind. And here afar, Intent on my own race and place, I wrote. Take thou the writing: thine it is. For who Burnished the sword, blew on the drowsy coal, Held still the target higher, chary of praise And prodigal of counsel - who but thou? So now, in the end, if this the least be good, If any deed be done, if any fire Burn in the imperfect page, the praise be thine. INTRODUCTORY IN the wild end of a moorland parish, far out of the sight of any house, there stands a cairn among the heather, and a little by east of it, in the going down of the brae-side, a monument with some verses half defaced. It was here that Claverhouse shot with his own hand the Praying Weaver of Balweary, and the chisel of Old Mortality has clinked on that lonely gravestone. Public and domestic history have thus marked with a bloody finger this hollow among the hills; and since the Cameronian gave his life there, two hundred years ago, in a glorious folly, and without comprehension or regret, the silence of the moss has been broken once again by the report of firearms and the cry of the dying. The Deil's Hags was the old name. But the place is now called Francie's Cairn. For a while it was told that Francie walked. Aggic Hogg met him in the gloaming by the cairnside, and he spoke to her, with chattering teeth, so that his words were lost. He pursued Rob Todd (if any one could have believed Robbie) for the space of half a mile with pitiful entreaties. But the age is one of incredulity; these superstitious decorations speedily fell off; and the facts of the story itself, like the bones of a giant buried there and half dug up, survived, naked and imperfect, in the memory of the scattered neighbours. To this day, of winter nights, when the sleet is on the window and the cattle are quiet in the byre, there will be told again, amid the silence of the young and the additions and corrections of the old, the tale of the Justice-Clerk and of his son, young Hermiston, that vanished from men's knowledge; of the two Kirsties and the Four Black Brothers of the Cauldstaneslap; and of Frank Innes, "the young fool advocate," that came into these moorland parts to find his destiny.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112042240512