Weir of Hermiston, by Robert Louis Stevenson

Explores the detailed evolution of the work through its composition and on to eventual posthumous publication Stevenson’s unfinished masterpiece, Weir of Hermiston , has been entirely re-edited from his final manuscript, revealing a rather different novel from the bowdlerised version produced posthumously by his friends. Stevenson revisits the conflicted Scotland of James Hogg and Sir Walter Scott as well as that of his own youth, but also responds to recently published novels. A substantial ess