Weir of Hermiston

By Robert Louis Stevenson

Book Overview

With the words last printed "a wilful convulsion of brute nature," the romance of Weir of Hermiston breaks off. They were dictated, I believe, on the very morning of the writer's sudden seizure and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140431381
• ISBN13: 9780140431384
• Release Date: March 1980
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Unfinished, but excellent

This was Stevenson's last novel and is unfinished, though it is known how it was going to finish. The main feature of the plot is the relationship between Lord Hermiston, a judge renowned for his stringency, and his more liberal (but still fairly well-behaved) son. The plot is of course a lot more complex than that, and the father is absent for most of even what Stevenson wrote before his death.It is a very Scottish novel, with large portions of it taking place in the Scottish countryside, with clan relations, etc. and with most of the dialogue in Scots.Some of the characterisation is excellent, and if it had been finished with Stevenson's usual ability along the suggested storyline, it would have been a very moving novel indeed.