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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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Weir of Hermiston. 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
Sep 21, 2024 · 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 ...
An unfinished novel by R. L. Stevenson, published 1896. Archie Weir is the only child of Adam Weir, Lord Hermiston, the lord justice clerk, a formidable ‘hanging judge’, based on the character of Robert Macqueen, Lord Braxfield (1722–99), known as ‘the Jeffrey of Scotland’. His mother, a pale, ineffectual, religious woman, dies young ...
Weir of Hermiston reads as if it were shaping up to be a dramatic novel, by Stevenson’s definition, “founded on one of the passionate cruces of life, where duty and inclination come nobly to the grapple.” The stern old “hanging judge,” Lord Hermiston, father of the sensitive, reclusive Archie Weir, is ultimately to be complicit in condemning his son to death for murder, and to die of ...
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Abstract. Weir of Hermiston was begun in October 1892 in a mood of great enthusiasm and worked on sporadically until the day of Stevenson’s death more than two years later. Again and again it was laid aside while he was distracted with other projects — St. Ives.
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Weir Hermiston surpasses all Stevenson's previous achievement.' 63 1he hand of the storyteller is evident throughout taut narra· tive. 1he opening sentence at once presages a story, yarn set against the background of a defined location: 'In the wild end moorland parish, far out of the sight any house, there stands a
