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Weir of Hermiston (1896) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is markedly different from his previous works in style and has often been praised as a potential masterpiece. [1] [2] It was cut short by Stevenson's sudden death in 1894 from a cerebral haemorrhage. The novel is set at the time of the Napoleonic Wars .
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- 1896
Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance. Weir of Hermiston, fragment of an uncompleted novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, published posthumously in 1896. Stevenson used the novel in part as an effort to understand his youthful quarrel with his own father. Rich in psychological characterizations, with masterful dialogue and a beautiful prose ...
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Nov 7, 2010 · You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Weir of Hermiston an unfinished romance Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Editor: Sidney Colvin Release Date: November 7, 2010 [eBook #380] [First posted: December 2, 1995] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII ...
Weir of Hermiston, 1896. In Weir of Hermiston, Adam Weir marries Jeannie Rutherford of Hermiston. Weir is the Lord Justice Clerk (the most senior judge in Scotland), a severe and gruff man who uses coarse language and likes his drink. Jeannie, on the other hand is “pious, anxious, tender, tearful, and incompetent” (p. 162).
Mar 26, 2022 · Weir of Hermiston, sometimes considered Stevenson's masterpiece, is an unfinished novel cut short by the author's death from apoplexy. It was originally published serially in Cosmopolis , vol. i. pp. 1-20, 321-362, 641-663; vol. ii. pp. 1-27 (January to April 1896) and first appeared in book form in the same year.—Based on A Bibliography of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (1903), by ...
weir THE Lord Justice-Clerk was a stranger in that part of the country; but his lady wife was known there from a child, as her race had been before her. The old "riding Rutherfords of Hermiston," of whom she was the last descendant, had been famous men of yore, ill neighbours, ill subjects, and ill husbands to their wives though not their properties.
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Jan 1, 2009 · The Floating Press, Jan 1, 2009 - Fiction - 206 pages. 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.
