Fiction · 1893
Catriona
David Balfour has evidence that could save an innocent man's life, and the men who run Scotland's courts would rather he never gave it. James Stewart stands trial for the Appin Murder, the shooting of the King's factor Colin Campbell, and David, who saw it happen, knows James did not do it. Rather than let him testify, the Lord Advocate's men maroon him on the Bass Rock until the trial ends. Back in Edinburgh, too late to save James, David is drawn into the troubles of Catriona Drummond, daughter of the outlawed James More Drummond, a son of Rob Roy's.
Stevenson wrote Catriona as a direct sequel to Kidnapped, picking up David Balfour's story where the earlier book left off. It was serialized before appearing in book form in 1893, published in the United States as David Balfour.
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Contents
- Dedication
- Part I — The Lord Advocate
- Chapter I — A Beggar on Horseback
- Chapter II — The Highland Writer
- Chapter III — I Go to Pilrig
- Chapter IV — Lord Advocate Prestongrange
- Chapter V — In the Advocate’s House
- Chapter VI — Umquile the Master of Lovat
- Chapter VII — I Make a Fault in Honour
- Chapter VIII — The Bravo
- Chapter IX — The Heather on Fire
- Chapter X — The Red-Headed Man
- Chapter XI — The Wood by Silvermills
- Chapter XII — On the March Again with Alan
- Chapter XIII — Gillane Sands
- Chapter XIV — The Bass
- Chapter XV — Black Andie’s Tale of Tod Lapraik
- Chapter XVI — The Missing Witness
- Chapter XVII — The Memorial
- Chapter XVIII — The Tee’d Ball
- Chapter XIX — I Am Much in the Hands of the Ladies
- Chapter XX — I Continue to Move in Good Society
- Part II — Father and Daughter
- Chapter XXI — The Voyage Into Holland
- Chapter XXII — Helvoetsluys
- Chapter XXIII — Travels in Holland
- Chapter XXIV — Full Story of a Copy of Heineccius
- Chapter XXV — The Return of James More
- Chapter XXVI — The Threesome
- Chapter XXVII — A Twosome
- Chapter XXVIII — In Which I Am Left Alone
- Chapter XXIX — We Meet in Dunkirk
- Chapter XXX — The Letter from the Ship
- Conclusion
- Footnotes
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About the author
1850–1894 · Victorian
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was born in Edinburgh into a family of lighthouse engineers, trained in law, and turned to writing travel essays and stories. Treasure Island (1883), A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and Kidnapped (1886) made him famous. In poor health all his life, he travelled in search of a climate he could bear and settled in 1890 in Samoa, where he died at forty-four.
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