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.)
Read or download for free
For an overview of the different reading options, see our Reading Guide
| Reading Options | Url | Size | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read now! | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/380.html.images | 306 kB | |||
| EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/380.epub3.images | 223 kB | |||
| EPUB (older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/380.epub.images | 225 kB | |||
| EPUB (no images, older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/380.epub.noimages | 186 kB | |||
| Kindle | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/380.kf8.images | 408 kB | |||
| older Kindles | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/380.kindle.images | 386 kB | |||
| Plain Text UTF-8 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/380.txt.utf-8 | 292 kB | |||
| Download HTML (zip) | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/380/pg380-h.zip | 221 kB | |||
| There may be more files related to this item. | |||||
Similar Books
About this eBook
| 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 | Dec 1, 1995 |
| Most Recently Updated | Nov 7, 2010 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 653 downloads in the last 30 days. |
| Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! | |