Weir of Hermiston

the plays [of W.E. Henley and Robert Louis Stevenson] ; Fables

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Weir of Hermiston

the plays [of W.E. Henley and Robert Louis Stevenson] ; Fables

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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 There is no definite answer, but previously unpublished material does throw new light on this tale of Scottish 'public and domestic' history.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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1905, C. Scribner's sons
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Weir of Hermiston: an unfinished romance
1896, Charles Scribner's Sons
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Weir of Hermiston ...
1896, C. Scribner's Sons
Cover of: Weir of Hermiston
Weir of Hermiston: an unfinished romance
1896, C. Scribner's sons
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Cover of: Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance
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New York
Series
[Hinman collection], Letters and miscellanies of Robert Louis Stevenson -- v. 20
Other Titles
Plays of W.E. Henley and Robert Louis Stevenson, Fables

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viii, 508 p., [1] leaf of plate :
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