✍ Scribed by Robert Louis Stevenson
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"'Catriona' so reeks and hums with genius that there is no refuge for the desperate reader but in straightforward prostration." - Henry James
Robert Louis Stevenson considered Catriona, the lively sequel to Kidnapped , his best work. At the end of Kidnapped , young David Balfour enters an Edinburgh bank to claim his inheritance., In the opening scene of Catriona , he comes out moneybags in hand. While Balfour entered the bank a somewhat stolid teenager; he exits into young manhood to contend with all the complexities of politics, love, and family
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_Catriona_ is the sequel to Stevensen's classic, _Kidnapped_ , beginning precisely where the last work left off. David Balfour is back in polite society where he attempts to fight injustices and is caught in the tangled morality of love.
Continuación de _Secuestrado o memorias de las últimas aventuras de David Balfour en su patria y en el extranjero_ , donde trata los infortunios causados por el asesinato de Appin; sus problemas con el abogado Lord Grant; su cautiverio en el peñon de Bass; el viaje por Holanda y Francia y las singul
Suele decirse que nunca segundas partes fueron buenas, y ya el mismo Stevenson advierte que «es sino de las segundas partes defraudar a quienes las esperaban». Y sin embargo «Catriona» —continuación de «Secuestrado» en cuanto que narra el desenlace del asesinato de Colin Campbell y el enamoramiento
Kidnapped was first published in 1886, and Catriona, its sequel, in 1893. They are both novels of adventure and romance whose appeal to children and adults alike has not diminished in the century since they were written. This is the only edition to contain both novels in one volume. A sixteen-year-
SUMMARY: Kidnapped was first published in 1886, and Catriona, its sequel, in 1893. They are both novels of adventure and romance whose appeal to children and adults alike has not diminished in the century since they were written. This is the only edition to contain both novels in one volume.