The Scottish Novels

✍ Scribed by Robert Louis Stevenson

• Book ID: 110874496
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 515 KB
• Series: Canongate Classics
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781847675590

✦ Synopsis

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 Stevensons 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. Stevensons 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 Stevensons contemporaries to the present day.