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Weir of Hermiston

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In Stevenson's tale of father - son confrontation, the father, Adam Weir, is modelled on Lord Braxfield, the eighteenth-century 'hanging judge'. Weir, a 'risen man' who has married a wealthy but weak woman, is both feared and respected, not least by his own son, Archie. At a public hanging, Archie speaks out against capital punishment, knowing that it was his own father who sentenced the man.

He is banished to their estate at Hermiston outside Edinburgh, where he meets and falls in love with Christina Elliot, the daughter of the local laird. She is his social inferior, however, and Archie is afraid to tell his father of their attachment. But then Frank Innes arrives on the scene, a friend who sparks off events which will lead to Archie's death.

  1. But the novel is unfinished. Stevenson was working on Weir the day he died. How would he have finished the plot? There is no definite answer, but previously unpublished material does throw new light on this tale of Scottish 'public and domestic' history.
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Weir of Hermiston
1995, Edinburgh University Press
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Weir of Hermiston: an unfinished romance
1973, Holmes-McDougall
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Weir of Hermiston: an unfinished romance
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-178).

Published in
Edinburgh
Series
The collected works of Robert Louis Stevenson, the centenary edition

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.8
Library of Congress
PR5487 .W3 1995, PR5487.W3 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxvi, 178 p. ;
Number of pages
178

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1176754M
Internet Archive
weirofhermiston0000stev
ISBN 10
0748604731
LCCN
94162110
OCLC/WorldCat
33257021
Library Thing
873679
Goodreads
951384

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