Prince Otto, a Romance

Otto, the well-meaning but ineffectual ruler of the tiny German principality of Grünewald, is losing his throne and his marriage at the same time, and is too distracted by both to see either coming — while his wife Seraphina and his scheming minister Gondremark maneuver around him toward a revolution neither of them fully controls.

Stevenson called this novel, serialized and published in 1885, "my hardest effort"; one chapter was rewritten eight times over, once by his wife Fanny. It sold poorly and was received by contemporary critics as a strange swerve from the adventure fiction — Treasure Island had appeared two years earlier — that had made his name, but Stevenson himself ranked its prose among his best work.

This Bibliomancer edition presents the complete text in three books, following the 1905 Chatto & Windus edition, with Stevenson's own prefatory letter to Nelly Van de Grift (Mrs. Adulfo Sanchez, of Monterey).