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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.
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 There is no definite answer, but previously unpublished material does throw new light on this tale of Scottish ''public and domestic'' history.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
178
ISBN-13:
9780748604739
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0748604731
Udg. Dato:
28 jul 1995
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
138mm
Højde:
216mm
Forlag:
Edinburgh University Press
Oplagsdato:
28 jul 1995
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