Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson

"Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance" by Robert Louis Stevenson is a novel written in 1896. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, it tells the story of Archie Weir, a sensitive young man estranged from his cruel father, a criminal court judge. Banished to the family estate near Hermiston, Archie falls in love with a young woman named Kirstie. The novel breaks off abruptly due to Stevenson's sudden death, leaving readers with a tantalizing fragment of what many consider his most mature work. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Title Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weir_of_Hermiston
Credits Transcribed from the 1913 Chatto and Windus edition by David Price
Reading Level Reading ease score: 77.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject Fathers and sons -- Fiction
Subject Domestic fiction
Subject Young men -- Fiction
Subject Country life -- Fiction
Subject Scotland -- Fiction
Subject Judges -- Fiction
Category Text
EBook-No. 380
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Nov 7, 2010
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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